World's largest collection of original Peanuts artwork — in the Santa Rosa town Schulz called home for forty years.
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Visit WebsiteThe full campus visit — museum gallery walk, biographical exhibit, replica studio, the Snoopy-head outdoor labyrinth, then an afternoon skate at Snoopy's Home Ice next door. The most Sonoma-specific cultural pilgrimage the county offers.
The Charles M. Schulz Museum & Research Center opened in August 2002 — founded by Jean Schulz, the cartoonist's widow, in the Santa Rosa town where Sparky lived and worked for forty years. The museum holds the world's largest collection of original Peanuts artwork: hand-inked Sunday strips, the original sketches that became Snoopy and Charlie Brown, and the deeper archive of Schulz's career from his early days as a young Minnesota cartoonist through the half-century of Peanuts as a global cultural phenomenon. Three rotating exhibition galleries, a permanent biographical gallery, an exact replica of Schulz's Santa Rosa studio, and a small movie theater that screens animated specials.
The outdoor highlight is the Snoopy-head labyrinth — a ground-level walking maze in the shape of Snoopy's beagle profile, designed by Jean Schulz with landscape architect Yoji Sasaki. Adjacent to the museum on the same campus is Snoopy's Home Ice, the public ice arena Schulz himself built in 1969 and where he played hockey late into his seventies. The combined museum-and-arena visit is the full Sonoma County Schulz experience: gallery walk, studio replica, labyrinth, then an afternoon skating session at the rink the cartoonist founded. The museum is closed Tuesdays year-round; otherwise it's a casual drop-in destination at the gentle pace that Schulz himself preferred.
Founder
Jean Schulz is the widow of cartoonist Charles M. "Sparky" Schulz and the founder and president of the board of the Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center. It was Jean who first pressed the idea of a museum in the mid-1990s, winning over her reluctant husband by framing it around the life and craft of the artist rather than the Peanuts brand alone. After Sparky's death in 2000 she accepted his Congressional Gold Medal on his behalf and carried the project through, opening the museum in his adopted hometown of Santa Rosa in August 2002. Home to the world's largest collection of original Peanuts art, it remains under her stewardship as board chair.
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The Charles M. Schulz Museum & Research Center opened in August 2002 — founded by Jean Schulz, the cartoonist's widow, in the Santa Rosa town where Sparky lived and worked for forty years. The museum holds the world's largest collection of original Peanuts artwork: hand-inked Sunday strips, the original sketches that became Snoopy and Charlie Brown, and the deeper archive of Schulz's career from his early days as a young Minnesota cartoonist through the half-century of Peanuts as a global cultural phenomenon. Three rotating exhibition galleries, a permanent biographical gallery, an exact replica of Schulz's Santa Rosa studio, and a small movie theater that screens animated specials.
The outdoor highlight is the Snoopy-head labyrinth — a ground-level walking maze in the shape of Snoopy's beagle profile, designed by Jean Schulz with landscape architect Yoji Sasaki. Adjacent to the museum on the same campus is Snoopy's Home Ice, the public ice arena Schulz himself built in 1969 and where he played hockey late into his seventies. The combined museum-and-arena visit is the full Sonoma County Schulz experience: gallery walk, studio replica, labyrinth, then an afternoon skating session at the rink the cartoonist founded. The museum is closed Tuesdays year-round; otherwise it's a casual drop-in destination at the gentle pace that Schulz himself preferred.
The full campus visit — museum gallery walk, biographical exhibit, replica studio, the Snoopy-head outdoor labyrinth, then an afternoon skate at Snoopy's Home Ice next door. The most Sonoma-specific cultural pilgrimage the county offers.
Jean Schulz is the widow of cartoonist Charles M. "Sparky" Schulz and the founder and president of the board of the Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center. It was Jean who first pressed the idea of a museum in the mid-1990s, winning over her reluctant husband by framing it around the life and craft of the artist rather than the Peanuts brand alone. After Sparky's death in 2000 she accepted his Congressional Gold Medal on his behalf and carried the project through, opening the museum in his adopted hometown of Santa Rosa in August 2002. Home to the world's largest collection of original Peanuts art, it remains under her stewardship as board chair.
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