Charles M. Schulz Museum - Museum Matters - Brief Article

Art Business News, Oct, 2002

Cartoon fans from all over the world are flocking to Santa Rosa, Calif., where the Charles M. Schulz Museum recently opened to house more than 7,000 of the 17,897 original Peanuts strips that Schulz drew during his 50-year run. Designed by San Francisco architect C. David Robinson, the $8-million museum is a streamlined, two-story building with stucco and slate facades in shades of gray and white that echo the tones of a black-and-white cartoon.

Among the highlights are original Schulz drawings, his studio re-created and a mural Schulz painted in oil on the wall of his daughter's nursery in 1951, with early versions of Snoopy and Charlie Brown. The museum had the entire wall removed and trucked to Santa Rosa, where the mural was restored.