About Our Collections
| Peanuts Cartoon Strip Collection |
| The Peanuts Cartoon Strip Collection is the heart andsoul of the Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center. Numbering nearly 6,000 drawings for daily and Sunday pages, the Museum’s collection represents a wide breadth of Schulz’s thematic work from 1950 to 2000. Also included in this collection are several hundred preliminary sketches for Peanuts. |
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| Tribute Art Collection |
| This heart-felt collection of Tribute Art from the cartooning community includes get—well cards, retirement messages, expressions of sympathy, and the cartoons published in newspapers around the country on May 27, 2000 to commemorate the life of Charles M. Schulz. This powerful collection contains nearly 400 art pieces from cartoonists around the world. |
Patrick McDonnell, Mutts, People Magazine, January 1, 2000
© Patrick McDonnell, Dist. by King Features Syndicate, Inc. |
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| Charles M. Schulz's Personal Artifacts |
| The collection of Charles M. Schulz’s personal memorabilia encompasses items that he collected over a lifetime. Included are items from Schulz’s studio, hockey uniforms, his boyhood baseball gloves, collected artwork, his army sketchbook, and a scrapbook of pre-Peanuts published comics. |
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| Licensed Peanuts Products |
| The Museum’s holdings consist of Licensed Peanuts Products from around the world. From the earliest licensed Peanuts dolls in the 1950s to a vast array of today's merchandise, this collection represents the globalization of the beloved Peanuts characters. |
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| Photograph Collection |
| The Photograph Collection, dating from the 1910s, consists of historical photographs of Charles M. Schulz drawing, receiving awards, playing sports, and spending time with his family. This collection also includes publicity photos of Schulz as well as his personal collection of inscribed publicity photos from many of the performers who have visited the Redwood Empire Ice Arena since 1969. |
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| Library Collection |
| The Museum’s collection of Peanuts books, books about Charles M. Schulz and cartoon history, comic bookscontaining Peanuts cartoons, and magazines featuring Peanuts covers and extensive interviews with Schulz is impressive to any scholar of cartooning history. Some highlights of the collection include foreign language and Braille editions of Peanuts books, Peanuts cookbooks and songbooks, and a collection of Saturday Evening Post magazines containing Schulz’s pre-Peanuts cartoons. |
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| Multi-Media Collection |
| The Multi-Media Collection includes just about every type of media that has been produced in the last fifty–five years—from film reels and phone games to LPs and DVDs. This collection consists of Peanuts animated specials and films, documentaries and interviews with Charles M. Schulz, video and computer games, and television and radio segments focusing on aspects of the Museum. |
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| Special Collections |
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| The Museum’s Special Collections encompasses the collected works of various individuals and organizations associated with Charles M. Schulz and the world of Peanuts. The collections contain early advertising broadsides, storyboards, correspondence, photographs, pamphlets, programs, and other ephemera. There is also a large collection of fan mail, letters written to Schulz upon his retirement, and condolence letters written to his family. |
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| Vertical Files |
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| A vast collection of magazines, newspaper clippings, tear sheets and promotional print ephemera comprises up the Museum's Vertical Files. Included in this collection are depictions of Peanuts characters on magazine covers, interviews with Charles M. Schulz, articles about Schulz and the Peanuts strip, and articles about the Schulz Museum and Peanuts licensees. |
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