June 9 @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
9:30 am – Exclusive Member Preview of Chas Addams: Family and Friends
10:30 am Panel – Fireside Chat with Kevin Miserocchi, The Tee & Charles Addams Foundation
11:30–3:30 pm – Create Addams Family–inspired art projects in the Conrad Prebys Foundation Arts Studio
2:00 pm Panel – Science on Screen®: Are the Addams Family Secretly STEM Professionals?3:00 pm Film Screening – The Addams Family (animated 2019 version, rated PG)
Join us for a day of programming celebrating the opening of our new exhibit, Chas Addams: Family and Friends. This event will take place on June 9, 2026, which is Free Tuesday for San Diego residents. For non-residents, programming is free with museum admission. Free admission for museum members.
Programming Schedule:
9:30 am: Exclusive Member Preview of Chas Addams: Family and Friends. Not yet a Comic-Con Museum® Member? Find out more and join us here. Regular museum admission begins at 10:00 am.
10:30 am: Panel– From Funny Drawings to a Worldwide Brand: A Fireside Chat Featuring Kevin Miserocchi
Comic-Con Museum welcomes Kevin Miserocchi, executive director and sole trustee of The Tee & Charles Addams Foundation, to the stage to chat about Charles Addams, creator of The Addams Family. Learn about Addams’s early invention of the family in cartoons, how the characters became those we know and love from movies, books, and television, and how the foundation stewards the legacy of Tee & Charles Addams today.
11:30 am–3:30 pm: Make Addams Family–inspired art projects in the Conrad Prebys Foundation Arts Studio (while supplies last)
2:00 pm: Panel– Science on Screen®: Are the Addams Family Secretly STEM Professionals?
They’re creepy and they’re kooky, but the Addams family are also geniuses when it comes to engineering, botany, and other STEM fields. Gomez, Morticia, Wednesday, and Pugsley use their expertise to torture each other and their neighbors, and spooky hijinks abound. Our own panel of STEM experts will weigh in on the plants, animals, explosives, and medieval torture devices the Addams family have mastered for their mysterious and spooky lifestyle. This event includes audience Q&A and will be followed by a screening of the 2019 animated film The Addams Family at 3:00 pm. Come early to view Comic-Con Museum’s exhibit Chas Addams: Family and Friends, which showcases original art by Charles Addams.
3:00 pm: Film Screening: The Addams Family (2019 animated film; rated PG)
Science on Screen® at Comic-Con Museum® is made possible through a grant from the Coolidge Corner Theatre, with support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
(Schedule subject to change. Space limited. Please leave time for parking in Balboa Park. You can find updated parking information here.)