Comic-Con Museum Offering Discounted Admission as Part of Giving Back Campaign to Feeding San Diego
San Diegans can bring a canned food item or make a monetary donation to Feeding San Diego at the door to save $5 through February 13
During Feeding San Diego’s Spread Love San Diego campaign this month, which encourages San Diegans to spread love and kindness to those facing hunger, the new Comic-Con Museum in Balboa Park is rewarding those who give to the hunger-relief organization.
The Museum, which recently soft opened this past November, is offering $5 off the admission price if guests bring a canned food item or make a monetary donation to Feeding San Diego at the door. Guests can enjoy the discount day-of or for a future visit.
The benefit campaign ties into the museum’s latest exhibition, Eight Decades of Archie, created in collaboration with Archie Comics to explore the storied history of America’s typical teenagers through immersive set pieces, visual displays, and hundreds of artifacts including vintage comic books, animation production materials, priceless pieces of original art, and other memorabilia.
WHO: Feeding San Diego, whose mission is to end hunger through food rescue, and Comic-Con Museum, whose mission is to create the general public’s awareness of and appreciation for comics and related popular art forms. The Museum plans to accomplish this by creating a world-class attraction that will welcome San Diego residents and tourists.
WHAT: Guests of the Comic-Con museum can receive $5 off admission price to the museum by bringing a canned food item or donating to Feeding San Diego at entrance. Guests can enjoy the discount day of or for a future visit.
Most needed items are peanut butter and nuts, canned fish or white meat chicken, canned fruits in natural juices or dried fruit with no added sugar, canned chicken, tomato, or vegetable soup, or whole grain oatmeal or cereal. No glass please.
WHEN: Now through February 13, 2022
WHERE: Comic-Con Museum, 2131 Pan American Plaza, San Diego, CA 92101
VISUALS: Comic-Con Museum staff accepting donations from guests, Eight Decades of Archie exhibition, guests posing in front of a branded photo backdrop.
