National Cartoon Museum

National Cartoon Museum

Illustration of the museum during its Port Chester era.
Established	1974
Dissolved	2002
Location	As the Museum of Cartoon Art: Stamford, Connecticut, then Greenwich, Connecticut then Port Chester, New York; As National Cartoon Museum/International Museum of Cartoon Art: Boca Raton, Florida
Type	The collection, preservation and exhibition of cartoons, comic strips and animation
Collection size	200,000 original drawings 20,000 comic books 1000 hours of film and tape
Curator	Gary Hood (1996)

The National Cartoon Museum was an American museum dedicated to the collection, preservation and exhibition of cartoons, comic strips and animation. It was the brainchild of Mort Walker, creator of Beetle Bailey. The museum opened in 1974, and went through several name changes, relocations, and temporary closures, before finally closing for good in 2002.

Originally known as the Museum of Cartoon Art, the name was changed to the National Cartoon Museum when it moved to Boca Raton, Florida, in 1992.^[1] In 1996, it became the International Museum of Cartoon Art.^[2]

In June 2008, Walker's collection was merged with the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, affiliated with Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio.