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Pixar Exhibit Returns to the US for 25th!

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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