The Cartoon Museum

The Cartoon Museum

The Cartoon Museum is a museum in London for political cartoons, comic strips and books. As well as holding a collection of cartoons it has a library of over 3000 books relating to the subject.

The museum features over 1200 exhibits, and is, as of 2006, curated by Anita O'Brien, who noted "There has never been a cartoon museum here... In spite of the very strong historical tradition here, there has always been a very strong ambivalence towards comic art." [cite news|url=http://www.news24.com/News24/Backpage/Offbeat/0,5583,2-1343-1347_1886598,00.html|organisation=News24,com|date=23 February 2006|title=Cartoon museum opens] It was opened on the 23 February 2006 by the Duke of Edinburgh. [cite news|url=http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1713644,00.html|title=London cartoon museum opens|firstname=Maev|lastname=Kennedy|organisation=The Guardian|date=20 February 2006] In its mission statement the museum declares itself "dedicated to preserving the best of British cartoons, caricatures, comics and animation, and to establishing a museum with a gallery, archives and innovative exhibitions to make the creativity of cartoon art past and present, accessible to all for the purposes of education, research and enjoyment." [cite web|url=http://www.cartooncentre.com/about.html#Anchor-Missio-32048|title=About Us: Mission|accessdate=2006-03-11]

Information

The museum is located at 35 Little Russell Street.

Nearest London Underground stations:
* Tottenham Court Road (Central, Northern lines)
* Holborn (Central, Piccadilly lines)
* Russell Square (Piccadilly line)

Notes and references

External links

* [http://www.cartooncentre.com/ Official website]


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