What better way to celebrate Pixar’s quickly approaching 25th anniversary than with the return of the studio’s museum tour to the Bay Area later this year?!
The popular exhibit debuted back in 2005 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and has since toured around the world landing in cities such as London, Tokyo and Melbourne among others. Now, it’s coming home to the recently re-opened Oakland Museum of California, just a few miles from Emeryville!
The newly expanded exhibit, renamed Pixar: 25 Years of Animation, now includes art from Ratatouille, WALL-E, Up and Toy Story 3! Over 500 original pieces (sketches, paintings, color scripts, storyboards, sculpts, etc.) will fill the halls and walls of the museum. If you’re in the area, you can check it out beginning on July 31st, 2010 through January 9th, 2011. On select dates you can catch feature and short screenings as well as talks by Pixarians!
I hope I’ll be able to visit the Bay Area around that time, but I have to be extremely thankful that I’m going at all this year. If I did get to visit 25 Years of Animation, I’d go straight for Artscape which gives "viewer[s] the sensation of entering into… original artworks."
For more details check out the Oakland Museum of California’s press release, featuring quotes from John Lasseter, courtesy of Art Daily.
Now that the news has broken, are any of you planning on visiting Pixar: 25 Years of Animation? If so, when would be the ideal time for you?
(via Pixar Talk)
Last modified: March 27, 2010
i wish it would come bk to the uk i missed it first time around 🙁
I really wish this would come to Chicago’s Art Institute.
Maybe I’ll have to move my plans to visit California back a few weeks because of this show. I was planning to visit the Charles Schulz and Disney Family museums, but now may need to hit Oakland.
YES! Oh my god, I can’t wait to go there! As denizen of the Bay Area, you can bet I’ll be going there first thing on opening day with a bunch of my animation friends. So Awesome!
I’m probably not going to get to go :(, but this is exciting anyway. 😀 By “feature screenings”, do you mean… we would see screenings of upcoming Pixar movies?! I didn’t think they’d let you do that!
—Leirin
It’ll be travelling across the U.S. soon, too!
uruseiranma- Are you a college student? You’ll want to check out my upcoming post!!
Leirin- “Feature screenings”, as in, screenings of feature films. Presumably those that have already been released. 😉
“uruseiranma- Are you a college student? You’ll want to check out my upcoming post!”
martini833- sadly, no. My last college days were right around the time ‘Finding Nemo’ came out.
I hope I will get a chance to go see it. I missed it when it came to the MOMA, sadly. But I have family near Oakland, so here’s to hoping I visit them soon!
YES! It’s finally in the Bay Area! I will be there on opening day. The Oakland museum hosted the Disneyland history exhibit a few years ago, and they did a wonderful job.