Featured Lectures

The Schulz Museum proudly welcomes visiting artists and guests, many of whom present lectures and demonstrations of their artistic or other talents. This page features a selection of these special presentations.

Billie Jean King in Conversation Sunday January 15, 2012

Billie Jean King, sports icon and humanitarian and personal friend of the late Charles M. Schulz participated in a moderated conversation with Museum Director, Karen Johnson at the Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center, Sunday, January 15, 2012.

Billie Jean King visited the Museum to celebrate the opening of its newest exhibition, Leveling the Playing Field, which runs through August 12, 2012. The exhibition highlights women in sports and commemorates the 40th anniversary of the passage of Title IX, legislation that ensures equal access to both men and women in federally-funded educational programs and activities, including sports.

To celebrate International Women's History Month, the Schulz Museum invited Jan Eliot, creator of Stone Soup, and Lynn Johnston, creator of For Better or For Worse, to be our our special guests on Sunday, March 27, 2011. They both talked about their experiences as women cartoonists, how they got started, and where their journeys have taken them today.

On Saturday, April 25, 2009, the Schulz Museum welcomed NASA Astronaut Dan Tani to talk about his experiences in the space program and his two space flights. Tani’s frist space flight was aboard the Endeavor STS-108 in 2001. During his second space flight, Tani spent 120 days living and working aboard the International Space Station from October 2007 to February 2008. Tani received his B.S. and M.S. degree in mechanical engineering from MIT before being selected as a NASA astronaut candidate in 1996.

The Schulz Museum hosted Apollo 10 astronauts Tom Stafford and Eugene Cernan on January 31, 2009 for a special Q&A to talk about the NASA space program and Peanuts involvement in it.

Mell Lazarus visited the Schulz Museum on November 8, 2008, for a Museum Members-Only presentation. Mell is the creator of comic strips Mama and Miss Peach. He was a personal friend of Charles M. Schulz.