Charles Schulz remains one of the world's most beloved cartoonists. In 1997, cartoon historian Mark Cohen, working with Schulz's wife and attorney began plans for a museum to honor Charles Schulz. They wanted to show the world how his work inspired and taught us all.

About the Charles Schulz Museum

The museum is covered with cartoons. You'll encounter them everywhere - on signs, in the exhibits and on ceramic tiles that make up a two-story-high mural Charlie Brown, Lucy and The Football, designed by Japanese artist Yoshiteru Otani. It's made of over 3,000 black-and-white Peanuts strips printed on two- by eight-inch ceramic tiles, arranged to recreate the classic Charlie Brown and Lucy scene.

Charles Schulz's study is upstairs, along with Peanuts strips grouped by topic. You can also see the mural wall Schulz painted in his Colorado Springs home in 1951, carefully removed and installed in the museum. Other rotating exhibitions round out the offerings.

Schulz once said, "Cartooning is still just drawing funny pictures," and his pictures were funny indeed - everywhere in the museum, people giggle, laugh, chortle and snort at the cartoons, alternating from cartoon-induced belly laughs to the verge of tears at the thought of Schulz's death.