Cartoon Art Museum
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Cartoon Art Museum (CAM) is an art museum in San Francisco, California, specializing in the art of comics and cartoons. As of 2005, it is the only museum in the United States dedicated to the preservation and exhibition of cartoon art, and holds approximately six thousand pieces—including original animation cels, comic book pages, and early newspaper comic strips—in its permanent collection.
The museum was organized in 1984 by comic art enthusiasts. 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 Charles Schulz, it established a home on the second floor of the San Francisco Call Bulletin Building at 814 Mission Street in the South of Market area. In 2001 it moved to a ground floor location at 655 Mission Street which had been vacated by the Friends of Photography Ansel Adams Center.
Besides its galleries, the museum also operates a research library, a classroom, and a museum bookstore. It hosts seven major exhibitions per year, classes for children and adults, and lectures.
