The Magic of Comic-Con, All Year Round
Comic-Con Museum, Balboa Park’s newest addition, offers fans a chance to see a world-class collection by day and join an exciting community by night. Visitors can experience exhibitions, programs and events featuring comics and popular art drawn from across the Comic-Con universe. The world-class Comic–Con Museum in San Diego is a gateway to popular art, culture, and life-long learning!
As part of Comic Con, the world renowned comics and popular arts convention, the Comic-Con Museum is a participatory space focused on bringing together diverse audiences for shared vibrant experiences featuring comics, film, science/fiction, fantasy, TV shows, books, video games, anime, or other related popular arts. With immersive exhibits that change seasonally, hands-on STEAM based art making activities, panels, movie screenings, and other dynamic programming, you will always find something new and exciting to explore.
Current & Upcoming Exhibitions
Doctor Who: Worlds of Wonder – Where Science Meets Fiction
Now Open
Step into the TARDIS and journey through space, time, and science in this immersive Doctor Who experience. Featuring original props, costumes, and behind-the-scenes stories, this world-exclusive exhibit also unveils all seventeen iconic Doctor costumes—on display together for the first time. Explore how the fantastical Whoniverse intersects with real-world science and innovation in this groundbreaking showcase.
Center Stage: The Art of Mel Marcelo
Step into the bold, colorful world of legendary vector illustrator Mel Marcelo. The Center Stage exhibition showcases his most iconic sports and music posters, celebrating decades of local culture and major arena events. Do not miss this stunning tribute to a visionary visual storyteller who captured the true heartbeat of San Diego.
Chas Addams…Family and Friends
Ghoulish, macabre, bizarre, eerie, and weird have all been used to describe the work and characters of Charles Samuel Addams. Charming, humorous, enchanting, tender, and captivating are also adjectives used to describe the same body of work, as well as the man himself. His rare gift was the ability to enjoin such dichotomies in wonderfully crafted cartoons and drawings loved by millions worldwide. Born in Westfield, New Jersey in 1912, Addams became a freelance cartoonist in the early 1930s. He sold his first drawing to The New Yorker in 1933. His cartoons ran regularly in the magazine from 1938 up until his death in 1988. Addams drew more than 1,300 cartoons over the course of his life. Those that did not appear in The New Yorker were often in Collier’s and TV Guide. This exhibition encompasses 60 original works (including several color paintings as well as black-and-white cartoons), divided into five categories: Art & Architecture, Relationships, Addams Family, Anomalies, and “Preliminary and Published,” which consists of four published works and their associated preliminary drawings.
MASQUERADE: THE ART OF COSPLAY
Celebrating costuming in the popular arts. In this display, we showcase the craft, skills, and costumes of fans and professionals who have been participants of Comic-Con’s Masquerade, as well as costume prototypes used in popular media.
Visit Comic-Con Museum
Address:
2131 Pan American Plaza
San Diego, CA
92101
Phone:
(619) 546-9073
Hours:
COMIC-CON MUSEUM
Open daily except Mondays
10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Last entrance at 4:30 pm.
Closed on Mondays
Website:
2131 Pan American Plaza, San Diego, CA
