For nearly fifty years, Charles Monroe Schulz entertained audiences from around the world with his Peanuts comic strip. With his endearing Peanuts characters, Schulz explored a broad range of emotions, from friendship and faith to tolerance and disappointment. Inside Peanuts: The Life and Art of Charles M. Schulz celebrates the cartoonist’s extraordinary life and describes his creative process and artistic focus.This exhibition creates an experience for visitors that illuminates the story behind the creation of one of the most popular and influential cartoon strips of all time.

Every year for nearly fifty years during baseball season, Peanuts fans could expect a healthy number of strips portraying Charlie Brown and the Gang engaged in America’s favorite pastime. Based heavily on Charles Schulz’s childhood experiences with sandlot baseball, the stories of the Peanuts baseball team are in turn whimsical, thoughtful, hilarious, and full of pathos. Peanuts at Bat takes a lighthearted look at Schulz's love for the all-American sport and showcases the Peanuts Gang’s hapless pursuit of a winning baseball strategy. The exhibition includes 47 high-resolution reproductions of Peanuts strips and selected memorabilia.

How many suns? Is the Earth flat? Charles Schulz touched on many aspects of the natural world during the nearly 50 years he created the Peanuts comic strip (October 1950 to February 2000). During the 1950s and 1960s, Schulz’s characters explored aspects of the natural world with wonder and delight, and their cockamamie understanding of the world around them afforded many opportunities to introduce readers of the strip to fun facts about the natural world.

It is difficult to imagine—although some remember it well—the excitement that the race for the moon invoked forty years ago. As the decade of the 1960s was coming to a close, America and the rest of the world waited with great anticipation to see if NASA could achieve President John F. Kennedy’s challenge, put forth in May 1961, of putting a man on the moon by the end of the decade. Consequently, it was a very great honor, indeed, when the crew of Apollo 10 chose to nickname their command and lunar modules Charlie Brown and Snoopy, respectively. This exhibition examines the history of Apollo 10 and the Peanuts characters’ role in that flight and in the NASA Manned Flight Awareness safety program.

During its nearly fifty year history, the Peanuts comic strip grew to have a strong connection with the winter season, especially Christmas.  This exhibition celebrates the holiday season with a presentation of the winter sports that Schulz himself enjoyed; a behind-the-scenes history of the making of the animated classic, A Charlie Brown Christmas; and a holiday narrative as explored in the Peanuts comic strip.

This exhibition contains reproduction comic strips, quotes by Schulz, photos from his boyhood, artifacts from A Charlie Brown Christmas special, and seasonal novelties.