We're by no means the only important Peanuts Internet site (although we'd like to think we're in the Top 10!). Below you'll find links to all of our favorite Peanuts Web destinations.

The Charles Schulz Museum

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Click here to learn up-to-the-minute information about the Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center, on the corner of West Steele Lane and Hardies Lane, in Santa Rosa, California. You can check out the museum "mission statement," take a look at photos of the groundbreaking ceremony, and (many months later) the grand opening ceremony. This site will just keep on growing and growing, so bookmark it and visit often!

The result of more than two years of planning, the museum was conceived to celebrate and explore the life and art of Charles M. Schulz, the 20th century's most influential cartoon artist.

The 27,384-square-foot museum includes permanent and temporary galleries, a 100-seat auditorium, classroom space and outdoor gardens. The project architect is C. Davis Robinson Architects, of San Francisco.

Ace photographer and PCC member Scott McGuire was on hand during the many opening-weekend activities at the Charles M. Schulz Museum. He has posted dozens and dozens of pictures he took during those five days, and you can see them right here.

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Charles M. Schulz Museum events

Peanuts, Naturally

Charlie Brown is in trouble with the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) for taking a bite out of a kite-eating tree, Lucy knows the Earth has 48 suns, and Snoopy and Linus are planting French fries in the garden. These are just a few of the misadventures and explanations gone wrong as the Peanuts Gang explores the natural world. What other trouble can they find?!

The newest exhibition at the Charles M. Schulz Museum -- Peanuts ... Naturally -- opens August 28 and continues through January 23, 2011. It will examine Schulz's exploration of the natural world in a fun and educational way. Following its run at the Schulz Museum, the exhibition will travel throughout the United States to more than 31 museums and libraries for five years (from 2011 to 2016).

Through original Peanuts comic strips, videos, and objects, Peanuts ... Naturally explores the Gang's interpretations of the "web of nature," the solar system, climate changes, trees, birds, gardening, and more. This exhibition also encourages visitors literally to get in touch with their natural surroundings through hands-on activity centers that provide practical advice on how individuals can be good environmental stewards in their own communities.

During the early years of Peanuts, Schulz's characters had misguided understandings of the natural world (including how many suns rotate around the Earth and whether or not the Earth is flat), providing readers with many opportunities to laugh and learn. In the 1970s, Schulz began to address environmental concerns more directly, perhaps reflecting Americans' growing awareness and concern about the environment. Schulz's warm and witty humor, combined with the innocence of his Peanuts characters, helped to make his observations about the human impact on the environment accessible to a global audience.

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Congratulations -- and thanks -- to Mike Thompson, of the Detroit Free Press, for this editorial cartoon that was published shortly after the Charles M. Schulz Museum opened. (And no, the grown-ups who work there don't sound like that!)

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The official Peanuts site Although not really a fan site, this new Peanuts Web destination -- set up following the transition from United Media to Iconix -- illustrates how Snoopy and the gang are "branded" in the United States and around the world. You'll get a strong sense of media coverage, licensing, the spread of amusement parks that star the gang, and so forth. Potential licensees also will find this site helpful, as it explains how to get in touch with the new company -- Peanuts Worldwide LLC -- in order to learn more information. Plus, you can read the day's strip in the upper right-hand corner.

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The Peanuts Collector Club

Andrea Podley started this gathering of Peanuts fans quite modestly, back in 1983, and the Club soon grew to international proportions and a membership base of several thousand folks who can't get enough of Charlie Brown, Snoopy and the rest of the gang. The Club's Beaglefest conventions achieved the status of legend and, with the help of the Internet, fans have networked as never before. Drop by and check out the Club's most recent activities, and tell 'em we said hello!

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Canine Companions for Independence

Their motto is Exceptional dogs for exceptional people, and truer words never were spoken. The Peanuts Collector Club donates a portion of every annual membership to CCI, and also has raised lots of money for them during Beaglefest and other Club activities. If you'd like to learn more about the organization that is near and dear to Charles and Jeannie Schulz, then please visit this site ... I promise, you will come away transformed!

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Project Linus

Want to get involved with something that'll make you all warm and fuzzy? Project Linus delivers security blankets to children all over the world. This wonderful organization has over 270 chapters in the United States, Canada, and Australia. Originally targeting pediatric cancer patients, Project Linus has broadened its focus and now aims toward seriously ill or traumatized children ... children in need of a big hug.
So what're you waiting for? Drop by and see how you can help!

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Snoop-o-Rama

Disey has been something of a faithful "town crier" for the Peanuts community since 1997. She maintains a chatty Web site and also sends out a regular e-mail newsletter that's filled with information about upcoming swaps, gatherings and other events, along with "for sale" ads posted by fans. You can sign up for the newsletter at this site, so what are you waiting for? You want to be connected to the Peanuts world, right?

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Bill Melendez Productions

Everybody mourned when we lost veteran animator Bill Melendez in the summer of 2008. He's the genius who brought Charlie Brown and the gang to TV and the movies, and you'll have a blast navigating his Web site. Aside from cute Melendez animation, you'll hear Vince Guaraldi's Peanuts music, while finding out how Melendez began his career, what he did for so many years, and oodles more. What're you waiting for?

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The MetLife Home Page

Long associated with the Peanuts gang, Metropolitan Insurance now has its own website...and it's well-populated by Charlie Brown and his friends! Whether touring the MetLife Art Gallery, or the "Life Advice Home Page," you'll be guided by Snoopy, Lucy, and the rest of the gang. (And you can also find your closest MetLife representative!)

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Knott's Berry Farm This site has a section devoted to Camp Snoopy, its "Amusement Park Within an Amusement Park." Check out the pictures, and you'll be making reservations tomorrow!

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AAUGH.com booklist and store

Nat Gertler has compiled a well-explained book list, cleverly set up in outline form to easily distinguish different types of collections. He also sells a large array of Peanuts books, CDs and videos online.

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Stan Pawlowski's gorgeous work

Sculptor Stan Pawlowski has been a fan of Charles Schulz and his Peanuts characters for years. Learn all about his work here.

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Gateway Page Breaking News Just the FAQs, Ma'am Beethoven's Rhapsodies: The Music (and Musicians) of Peanuts Shop Till You Drop Just for Fun By Derrick Bang Legal Matters

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