Cartoon Art Museum

Why go

Cartoon Art Museum is defined by the galleries, objects, and displays inside Cartoon Art Museum. Another layer comes from the architecture and visitor sequence at Cartoon Art Museum. Plan Cartoon Art Museum by remembering to choose priority galleries inside Cartoon Art Museum and verify current access. After Cartoon Art Museum, choose a cultural stop near Cartoon Art Museum; this keeps Cartoon Art Museum geographically coherent and avoids forcing Cartoon Art Museum into an unrelated crossing.

What to look for

• Look closely at the galleries, objects, and displays inside Cartoon Art Museum.
• Notice the architecture and visitor sequence at Cartoon Art Museum.

The full story

In 1987, with the help of an endowment from cartoonist Charles Schulz, it established a home on the second floor of the San Francisco Call-Bulletin Building in the South of Market (SoMa) area. In late 1994 the museum temporarily closed while it moved locations again; re-opening in the summer of 1995. Primary founder Malcom Whyte retired from the museum's board of directors around the same time. Jenny E. Robb served as curator of the Cartoon Art Museum from 2000–2005. (Robb is now curator of the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum in Columbus, Ohio.) Current curator Andrew Farago took over from Robb in 2005. In 2001, the museum moved to a ground-floor location at 655 Mission Street in SoMa, which had been vacated by the Friends of Photography Ansel Adams Center. It closed the location in mid-September 2015 after the lease expired; the owners more than doubled the rent.

Useful to know

• For Cartoon Art Museum, choose priority galleries inside Cartoon Art Museum and verify current access.
• Pair Cartoon Art Museum with a cultural stop near Cartoon Art Museum when the route and opening conditions align.

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