The Cartoon Art Museum (CAM) is a California art museum specializing in the art of comics and cartoons. Located at 655 Mission Street in San Francisco, it is the only museum in the Western United States dedicated to the preservation and exhibition of all forms of cartoon art, and holds approximately 6,000 pieces—including original animation cels, comic book pages and early newspaper comic strips—in its permanent collection.
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Origins
The Museum was founded in 1984 by comic art enthusiasts, with its primary founder being Malcolm Whyte, a former publisher. Its first incarnation had no fixed location, instead organizing showings at other local museums and corporate spaces. 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 area. In 2001 it moved to the ground-floor location at 655 Mission Street which had been vacated by the Friends of Photography Ansel Adams Center.
Exhibitions
The Museum hosts seven major exhibitions annually, along with classes for children and adults. It also offers lectures and operates a research library, a classroom and a bookstore.
See also
- Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum
- The Cartoon Museum
- Michigan State University Comic Art Collection
- Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art
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Coordinates: 37°47′14″N 122°24′03″W / 37.787088°N 122.400940°W
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