Snoopy museum to open in Tokyo next year
TOKYO — The world’s second museum dedicated to Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the rest of the Peanuts gang will open in Tokyo’s Roppongi shopping and entertainment district in March next year for two and a half years only, Sony Creative Products Inc, the iconic comic strip’s exclusive agent in Japan, said.
An illustration of Snoopy. Photo: Peanuts Worldwide
TOKYO — The world’s second museum dedicated to Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the rest of the Peanuts gang will open in Tokyo’s Roppongi shopping and entertainment district in March next year for two and a half years only, Sony Creative Products Inc, the iconic comic strip’s exclusive agent in Japan, said.
The Snoopy Museum Tokyo, to be built in a redevelopment area near the Roppongi Hills commercial complex, will exhibit original drawings and early works by Charles M Schulz (1922-2000), the writer and illustrator of Peanuts, among other items, which will be renewed every six months until its closure in September 2018.
It will serve as a branch of the Charles M Schulz Museum and Research Centre, located in Santa Rosa, California, said Sony Creative Products. KYODO NEWS
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