10 Cartoon Museums for Kids and Grown Ups

Inspirational days out for all the family

By Google Arts & Culture

Tintin and Snowy (from the TV series "Tintin")The Mint Museum

The Ghibli Museum, Mitaka

Nestled in Inokashira Park in Mitaka, Tokyo, is the Ghibli Museum. This fantastical museum brings together children, technology, and fine arts to reveal the techniques and art of animation. Inside you'll find a café, bookstore, rooftop garden, cinema showing exclusive films.

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The Ghibli Museum, Mitaka

Nestled in Inokashira Park in Mitaka, Tokyo, is the Ghibli Museum. This fantastical museum brings together children, technology, and fine arts to reveal the techniques and art of animation. Inside you'll find a café, bookstore, rooftop garden, cinema showing exclusive films.

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Comics Art Museum, Brussels

It's not just chocolate and chips you can find in Belgium, also cartoons! This small nation has given the world an outsized number of comic artists, including Willy Vandersteen, Peyo, Herr Seele, and of course, Hergé, the maker of The Adventures of Tintin.

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Musée Hergé, Louvain-la-Neuve

And not too far away, you can visit the Hergé Museum in the town of Louvain-la-Neuve. With exhibitions on Hergé's life and his most famous characters, there's lot's to entertain kids of all ages.

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The museum's colourful, mindwarping interior was designed by the Belgian cartoonist Joost Swarte, and draws on some of the background details as seen in Hergé's ligne claire, style drawings.

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Museum of Caricature, Warsaw

In the old orangerie of Prymas Castle you'll find the Polish Museum of Caricature.This little museum has no permanent exhibitions, but the museum has a collection of over 20,000 pieces by Polish and foreign artists, and puts on many temporary exhibitions.

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Cartoon Art Museum, San Francisco

Did you know, the Cartoon Art Museum in San Fransisco is the only museum dedicated to comic and animation art in the western US states? Here you'll find something for everyone: comic strips, comic books and anime to political cartoons, graphic novels and underground comix.

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Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art

On the east coast, the The Society of Illustrators' Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art has hosted exhibitions of newspaper gags, women comic-book artists, and retrospectives devoted to Stan Lee and Will Eisner, as well as regular workshops, classes, and talks.

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Moomin Museum, Tampere

The world's only Moomin museum is found in Tampere, Finland. The pride and centrepiece of the museum is the five-storey, three-metre-high blue Moominhouse. Though, I'm not sure what the nature-loving Moomintroll and Snufkin would think of this building…

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Ishinomori Manga Museum, Ishinomaki

The history of cartoons and comics in Japan is storied, with some of the country's most famous artists moonlighting as popular entertainers and illustrators. In recent years, manga has taken over the world, and you can learn all about it at the Ishinomori Manga Museum.

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Seoul Animation Center, Seoul

Less well-known than its Japanese counterpart, Korean animation has come along in leaps and bounds in recent decades. At the Seoul Animation Center you can learn all about manwha characters such as Larva, Pororo, Robot Taekwon V, and Pucca.

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Tomi Ungerer Museum, Strasbourg

Since 1957, Tomi Ungerer's books and drawings have delighted adults and children alike. He was an illustrator, a designer, a toy collector, and an "archivist of human absurdity". He didn't shy away from razor-sharp satire and he always respected children's intelligence.

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Walt Disney Family Museum

Could you talk about cartoons without talking about Disney? The Walt Disney Family Museum in the Presidio of San Francisco is dedicated to the life and legacy of Walt Disney and promises an inspirational journey of imagination and perseverance.

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