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  Location within San Francisco County  Cartoon Art Museum (California)  Cartoon Art Museum (the United States) | |
| Established | 1984 |
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| Location | 781 Beach Street, San Francisco, California |
| Coordinates | 37°48′23″N 122°25′26″W / 37.8062666°N 122.4238831°W |
| Type | The art of comics and cartoons |
| Collection size | 6,000 pieces |
| Director | Summerlea Kashar |
| Curator | Andrew Farago |
| Website | www |
The Cartoon Art Museum (CAM) is a California art museum that specializes in the art of comics and cartoons. It is the only museum in the Western United States dedicated to the preservation and exhibition of all forms of cartoon art.[1] The permanent collection features some 7,000 pieces as of 2015, including original animation cels, comic book pages and sculptures.[2]
Until September 2015, the museum was located in the Yerba Buena Gardens cultural district of San Francisco, in the South of Market neighborhood. It reopened in October 2017, in a new location in the Fisherman's Wharf area of San Francisco.
- ^ "Curating Cartoons (Andrew Farago, Cartoon Art Museum)," Archived February 2, 2014, at the Wayback Machine Stanford Arts (Jan. 9, 2014).
- ^ Vaziri, Aidin (April 18, 2015). "Cartoon Art Museum to vacate longtime SoMa home". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2015-04-18.
The institution [...] has to vacate its home in San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood after its longtime lease ends in June, but has not yet found a new one. [... It ] counts approximately 7,000 original pieces as part of its permanent collection, including comic strips, political cartoons, comic book pages, advertisements, sculptures, videos and animation cels, backgrounds and sketches.