ToonSeum: Pittsburgh Museum of Cartoon Art is a museum devoted exclusively to the cartoon

Cartoon

A cartoon is a form of two-dimensional illustrated visual art. While the specific definition has changed over time, modern usage refers to a typically non-realistic or semi-realistic drawing or painting intended for satire, caricature, or humor, or to the artistic style of such works...

 arts, located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. ToonSeum is one of three museums dedicated to cartoon art in the United States.

ToonSeum Gallery was founded and curated by Joe Wos in 2007 as part of the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh

Children's Museum of Pittsburgh

The Children's Museum of Pittsburgh is a children's museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is in the Allegheny Center neighborhood in Pittsburgh's Northside.- History :...

, in the city's North Side, following the example of the Cartoon Art Museum

Cartoon Art Museum

The Cartoon Art Museum is a California art museum that specializes in the art of comics and cartoons. It is the only museum in the Western United States dedicated to the preservation and exhibition of all forms of cartoon art...

 in San Francisco. ToonSeum moved to its own gallery space on Liberty Avenue in Pittsburgh's downtown Cultural District

Cultural District, Pittsburgh

The Cultural District is a fourteen-square block area in Downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA bordered by the Allegheny River on the north, Tenth Street on the east, Stanwix Street on the west, and Liberty Avenue on the south....

 on November 8, 2009, aided by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust

Pittsburgh Cultural Trust

The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, a nonprofit arts organization, is a driving catalyst behind the ongoing development of the Downtown Pittsburgh Cultural District, Pittsburgh...

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