Cartoon Art Museum 655 Mission Street San Francisco, CA 94105 (415) 227-8666

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This museum aims to teach visitors about the history and possibilities of the nation's most overlooked art form and cultural export. Charlie Brown, Spider-Man, Horton, and Mr. Magoo, the museum pays homage to the tops in the field and sheds some light on their long-neglected creators. You can find stuffy museums that feature modernism, post-modernism, or reverse-post-post modernism in any city, but San Francisco gives you the informal Cartoon Art Museum. Long-forgotten favorites jockey for space with new creations, so you and your grandchild will have a lot to explain to each other.

Info: Adults $6, seniors 61 and older $4, children 6 to 12 $2, 5 and younger free, students $4; first Tuesday of every month by donation

Hours: Tuesday to Sunday 11am to 5pm

Age: Tdlr./Pre-Schl. (1-5), Elementary (5-9), Tween (9-12), Teen (12+)