Charles M. Schulz Museum

Charles M. Schulz Museum Celebrating cartoonist Charles M. Schulz, creator of Snoopy & the PEANUTS gang!

📍50 miles north of San Francisco The Charles M.
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Schulz Museum and Research Center was designed to reflect the modest, low key, and comfortable personality and style of the internationally-famous cartoonist. Until his death in 2000, Charles “Sparky” Schulz himself was involved with each design stage. After his passing, his widow, Jean, along with close friends, family members, and museum and design professionals kept his vision in mind to create this beautiful and meaningful space as a tribute to an extraordinary man.

🐾 Happy National Dog Day! Today, we celebrate Snoopy and all our pup friends who bring such joy into our lives... even w...
08/26/2026

🐾 Happy National Dog Day! Today, we celebrate Snoopy and all our pup friends who bring such joy into our lives... even when they have selective hearing!

This Peanuts comic strip was first published on March 19, 1953.

♀️ Let’s hear it for National Women's Equality Day! Join us as we celebrate the women who break barriers and redefine wh...
08/26/2026

♀️ Let’s hear it for National Women's Equality Day!

Join us as we celebrate the women who break barriers and redefine what's possible.

⚖️ Charles M. Schulz demonstrated his support for women's equality throughout Peanuts. The girl characters take the lead, fight, speak up, and exhibit strength through independence, confidence, and ambition. Peanuts became a place for girls to stand their ground, own businesses, vote, and have their voices heard.

This Peanuts comic strip was first published on August 8, 1982.

08/25/2026

There’s a Peanuts comic strip for every mood…

Our Peanuts tile wall is composed of 3,588 ceramic comic strips, including this one from November 12, 1968.

💝 Hi, sweetie! On this day in 1968, Lila makes her first and only appearance in the Peanuts comic strip. While everyone ...
08/24/2026

💝 Hi, sweetie!

On this day in 1968, Lila makes her first and only appearance in the Peanuts comic strip.

While everyone knows that Snoopy finds his forever home with Charlie Brown, he also had a brief—but happy—stay with Lila, a little girl whose family originally adopted Snoopy from the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm. When Lila’s family is forced by their landlord to give up Snoopy, the sudden separation leaves Snoopy shaken whenever her name is mentioned.

In a series of strips from June 1968, Lila sends Snoopy a letter saying she's coming to visit, but Snoopy, unable to bear the emotional weight of seeing her again, hides until she's left. Yet Lila sends Snoopy another letter, this time sharing that she's in the hospital, and Snoopy immediately goes to visit her, as seen in this Peanuts comic strip from August 24, 1968.

Lila also appears in two Peanuts animated specials, "Snoopy, Come Home" (1972) and "Snoopy's Reunion" (1991). See the latter playing daily in the Museum Theater in conjunction with our exhibition, "Snoopy's Family" (through September 16, 2026).

🎀 Happy ! Charlie Brown’s little sister, Sally Brown, first appeared in Peanuts on this day in 1959!Sassy, sweet, pract...
08/23/2026

🎀 Happy ! Charlie Brown’s little sister, Sally Brown, first appeared in Peanuts on this day in 1959!

Sassy, sweet, practical, and a little bit ditzy, Sally has opinions and she isn’t afraid to share them! She is inquisitive with a streak of sarcasm, and her creative use of language drives the humor in many of her strips. Though her attention is frequently on herself, Sally is often the one others turn to when they want to talk—even the School Building makes her an unlikely confidant.

When she isn't trying to win the affection of Linus (her "Sweet Babboo"), Sally can be found practicing her penmanship, watching TV in her beanbag chair, or dispensing unwarranted advice to her big brother.

“Sally stands for all the frustration and confusion that little kids experience at school. She is a favorite of many people because she is so uninhibited.” —Charles M. Schulz

⁉️ TRIVIA! For 6 months, Sally experienced amblyopia ("lazy eye") and wore an eye patch.

This Peanuts comic strip was published on March 22, 1980. (Visit our stories and Threads today to see her debut comic strip!)

💚 Happy ! Patricia "Peppermint Patty" Reichardt made her Peanuts debut 60 years ago today in 1966. ⚾ Peppermint Patty i...
08/22/2026

💚 Happy ! Patricia "Peppermint Patty" Reichardt made her Peanuts debut 60 years ago today in 1966.

⚾ Peppermint Patty is a natural athlete and can do just about anything—except study! While school is a challenge, she is a thinker and is more sensitive than she lets on. She speaks up for herself and others, often in tandem with her best friend, Marcie.

“She is definitely one of my favorites, and I think that she could carry a whole strip by herself. Her name was inspired by my noticing a dish of candy that was sitting around the house.” —Charles M. Schulz

⁉️ TRIVIA! Peppermint Patty is the only character to call Charlie Brown "Chuck.”

This Peanuts comic strip was published on September 12, 1973. (Visit our stories today to see her debut comic strip.)

🔭 This Peanuts comic strip was published on August 26, 1996.
08/21/2026

🔭 This Peanuts comic strip was published on August 26, 1996.

🌳 This Peanuts comic strip was published on August 30, 1997.
08/21/2026

🌳 This Peanuts comic strip was published on August 30, 1997.

✨ Kinda chic to be the creator of Peanuts!⁠📷:⁠(1,3) Photo by Tom Vano, 1969 © Schulz Museum⁠(2) Schulz and his dog Spike...
08/19/2026

✨ Kinda chic to be the creator of Peanuts!⁠

📷:⁠
(1,3) Photo by Tom Vano, 1969 © Schulz Museum⁠
(2) Schulz and his dog Spike, c. 1940-1945*⁠
(4) Apollo 10’s Thomas P. Stafford and Snoopy, 1969 © NASA⁠
(5) Lee Mendelson, Schulz, Bill Melendez, 1966*⁠
(6) Schulz drawing Charlie Brown, c. 1950s*⁠
(7) Schulz with Billie Jean King, c. 1980-1989*⁠
(8) Photo by Richard Rowan, 1971*⁠
(9) Photo by Mary Haffner, © Schulz Museum⁠
*© SFIPT (Collection of the Schulz Museum)⁠
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🪹 This Peanuts comic strip was published on August 19, 1971.
08/19/2026

🪹 This Peanuts comic strip was published on August 19, 1971.

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2301 Hardies Lane
Santa Rosa, CA
95403

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Monday 11am - 5pm
Wednesday 11am - 5pm
Thursday 11am - 5pm
Friday 11am - 5pm
Saturday 10am - 5pm
Sunday 10am - 5pm

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