Snoopy Museum Tokyo Opens “Siblings Are Wonderful” With 15 Rare Schulz Originals
Snoopy Museum Tokyo Opens “Siblings Are Wonderful” With 15 Rare Schulz Originals
A new exhibition looks at brothers and sisters in Charles M. Schulz’s Peanuts, bringing together around 45 works and rare original comic strips from the Schulz Museum collection.
Snoopy Museum Tokyo has opened a new exhibition looking at brothers and sisters in Charles M. Schulz’s Peanuts, with rare original comic strips on loan from the Charles M. Schulz Museum in California.
Siblings Are Wonderful opened on September 5, 2026, at the museum in Machida, Tokyo, and will run through February 28, 2027.
The exhibition brings together around 45 original and reproduced comic strips featuring some of the best-known sibling relationships in Peanuts, including Charlie Brown and Sally, Lucy, Linus and Rerun, and Snoopy and his littermates.
Among them are 15 original comic strips that, according to Snoopy Museum Tokyo, have not been publicly exhibited since entering the collection of the Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center.
Brothers and sisters in Peanuts
Sibling relationships gave Schulz plenty of material over the decades.
Charlie Brown is delighted when his younger sister Sally is born, but as she grows older she becomes increasingly critical of her brother. In the Van Pelt family, Lucy regularly interferes in the lives of her younger brothers Linus and Rerun.
Snoopy’s family provides another strand of the exhibition, with his siblings occasionally reuniting across the strip.
Through arguments, misunderstandings and moments of affection, the exhibition follows the different ways Schulz used family relationships as a source of humor.
Original Peanuts artwork Charles M. Schulz Museum collection
The exhibition includes original Peanuts artwork from the collection of the Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center in Santa Rosa, California.
Snoopy Museum Tokyo has highlighted, among others, original strips dated January 6, 1974, and July 21, 1969.
The museum says the originals allow visitors to see details that are difficult to reproduce in print, including the force of Schulz’s pen line, corrections made during the drawing process and variations in the density of the ink.
Fifteen original strips have not been publicly exhibited since entering the collection of the Charles M. Schulz Museum.
A closer look at Schulz’s line
Snoopy Museum Tokyo is an official satellite of the Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center in Santa Rosa, California.
The relationship gives the Tokyo museum access to original material from the Schulz Museum collection, allowing visitors to encounter the drawings at a scale and level of detail very different from newspaper reproduction.
A new Drawing Station
The opening of Siblings Are Wonderful also coincides with the introduction of a new Drawing Station on the museum’s second floor.
Visitors can trace Peanuts characters and motifs while following Schulz’s lines, an activity inspired by a similar experience at the Charles M. Schulz Museum in California.
The new feature is intended to give visitors a closer look at the simplicity and character of Schulz’s drawing style.
Charles M. Schulz created Peanuts for nearly 50 years after its debut in 1950, producing approximately 18,000 comic strips.
With Siblings Are Wonderful, Snoopy Museum Tokyo turns to a small but recurring part of that enormous body of work: the arguments, loyalties and humor shared by brothers and sisters.
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Snoopy Museum Tokyo — Siblings Are Wonderful https://snoopymuseum.tokyo/s/smt/diary/detail/2440?cd=exhibition&ima=0000
Snoopy Museum Tokyo — New exhibition and Drawing Station announcement https://snoopymuseum.tokyo/s/smt/news/detail/10351?ima=0000
Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center — Snoopy Museum Tokyo
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