Upcoming Events

Snoopy, Woodstock, and the Beagle Scouts aren’t the only wildlife we encounter in the Peanuts comic strip. Learn about the great outdoors and the animals that live there through hands-on activities. Explore pollination with cheese powder, create chlorophyll paintings, make a bug catcher, and more!

Drop your kids off for after-hours fun at the Schulz Museum, including a pizza dinner, games, crafts, and cartooning. Recommended for ages 5–10. Advance registration required.

Meet, watch, and talk to children’s book author Nancy Hayssen and illustrator Henry Castro as they share their new book, Ants in the Pants Nance: Flies by the Seat of Her Pants.

*This event is sold out.* Drop older kids off for after-hours fun at the Schulz Museum! Kids will have the Museum to themselves for a pizza dinner, games, art, crafts, and cool activities designed just for them. Recommended for ages 10–13 years old. Advance registration required.

Half-day and full-day classes are available in cartooning, animation, and art. Registration required. Class schedule, fees, registration details can be found here: schulzmuseum.org/classes-camps

Everyone is invited to drop in and learn how to draw your favorite cartoon characters! Cartoonist Robert Pope has worked for Peanuts, Batman, Bugs Bunny, Scooby-Doo, and many more. He will discuss his creative process and teach you how to draw some of the Peanuts Gang characters and more!

Celebrate the new Peanuts books Snoopy Soars to Space and Adventures with Linus & Friends! Join the creative team responsible for bringing Peanuts to the pages, with a panel discussion by writer Jason Cooper, editorial director Lex Fajardo, and artists Robert Pope and Justin Thompson, followed by a book signing. Also, join North Bay Letter Press Arts to see a letterpress in action and pull your own print to take home!

Enjoy a fun evening of Popeye the Sailor Man at the Schulz Museum with a screening of new high-definition scans of the Max Fleischer cartoons from the 1930s! Learn about E.C. Segar’s comic creation from page to screen with special guests Jane Fleischer Reid, 'Rockin Pins owner Mauricio Alvarado, cartoonist Brian Fies, and Schulz Museum curator Benjamin L. Clark, followed by a Q&A.

Sold out! This event is held offsite: Montgomery Village - Courtyard (911 Village Ct., Santa Rosa, CA 95405) Bring your little ones as we make a special visit to Santa Rosa’s Montgomery Village for Lessons for Littles (ages 4+)! Learn how to draw Peanuts characters and create several crafts to take home, including a Snoopy puppet and Snoopy ears, while learning about local icon Charles M. Schulz and his beloved comic strip.

Meet, watch, and talk to cartoonist, artist, musician and educator Lawrence Lindell. The co-founder of the family-run, small press Laneha House, Lindell is also the creator of several graphic comics including From Truth With Truth and Couldn’t Afford Therapy, So I Made This. He has a forthcoming middle-grade graphic novel called Buckle Up coming out in 2024 with Random House Graphic.

This event is SOLD OUT. Drop your kids off for after-hours fun at the Schulz Museum, including a pizza dinner, games, crafts, and cartooning. Kids will take a scavenger hunt through the Museum’s newest exhibition, Kite-Flying Foibles, design kites, make paper cup rocket launchers and helicopter pinwheels, and more. Recommended for ages 5–10. Advanced registration required.

Enjoy stories, crafts, and activities on the last Monday of the month. Activities are designed for children ages 1–5 and their caregivers.

Join author Monte Schulz for a book reading and discussion celebrating his newest book, Metropolis. His sixth prose fiction novel, Metropolis, is described as “a dystopian narrative of love in a time of war and moral disintegration.” Monte Schulz will sign books after his talk.

Use your Schulz Museum membership (all levels apply) to visit six participating museums throughout Santa Rosa for FREE (up to 4 guests)! Check each museum’s website for hours and restrictions before enjoying free admission to the California Indian Museum and Cultural Center; Children’s Museum of Sonoma County; Luther Burbank Home and Gardens; Museum of Sonoma County;  Pacific Coast Air Museum, and of course, the Schulz Museum!

Girl Scout Cadettes will earn and receive their Comic Artist badge in this special hands-on workshop. Museum staff will teach Cadettes how to develop stories and characters and create a four-panel comic strip from beginning to end while completing all five steps of the Comic Artist badge. Girl Scouts can attend in person at the Museum or online.

Join the Schulz Museum and the Sonoma County Library’s BiblioBus for a fun-filled family event at Mitote Food Park (665 Sebastopol Rd, Santa Rosa). Spin the Schulz Museum prize wheel and make your own Snoopy ears to wear as you explore the park’s delicious food options!

Watch Pixar Animation Studio’s animated short, Loop, about a non-verbal, autistic girl and a chatty boy, directed and written by Erica Milsom, who will present at the Museum at 1:00 pm. Enjoy additional screenings of Loop at 2:30 and 2:45 pm.

Meet, watch, and talk to writer and director Erica Milsom to explore how curiosity, connection, and self-reflection help her create relatable and memorable characters. Milsom will talk about her films from Pixar Animation Studios.

Mothers receive free admission all day in celebration of Mother’s Day.

Join cartoonist Judd Winick to celebrate the release of his newest graphic novel, Hilo Book 9: Gina and the Last City on Earth. Winick will talk about his process of creating the Hilo series and will sign books after his talk.

Drop your kids off for after-hours fun at the Schulz Museum! Kids will have the Museum to themselves for a pizza dinner, crafts, cartooning, and a night of circus-themed activities—play acrobat-training circus games, make silly circus bean art, and watch a Peanuts circus special! Recommended for ages 5–10. Advance registration required. 

Join Maria Scrivan, New York Times bestselling author, syndicated cartoonist, and creator of the Nat Enough series, as she celebrates her newest graphic novel, Nat for Nothing. Scrivan will talk about her work and sign books after the talk.

Enjoy stories, crafts, and activities on the last Monday of the month. Activities are designed for children ages 1–5 and their caregivers.

Join the Charles M. Schulz Museum and the Mendocino Film Festival for a FREE screening of Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown, followed by a how-to-draw Snoopy lesson and hands-on crafts for kids at Coast Cinemas in Fort Bragg (135 S Franklin St, Fort Bragg, CA 95437).

Spend your summer with the Schulz Museum exploring art, cartooning, animation, hands-on cooking and science, and ice skating, too! Look for a complete camp schedule and fees online at schulzmuseum.org/camps-classes.

Meet, watch, and talk to Melissa Pagluica, illustrator and creator of the all-ages graphic novel Above the Clouds, which successfully raised over $43,000 on Kickstarter. She is currently working on a new webcomic called Monster Heart that can be read on her website, teacupbee.com.

Ages 21 and over only! Put your knowledge to the test and join us for a lively night filled with general trivia, friendly competition, and prizes! Plus, explore the galleries after hours and enjoy drinks from Guayakí Yerba Mate, Moonlight Brewing Company, and Mueller Winery.

Fathers receive free admission all day in celebration of Father’s Day.