The Museum’s entry includes a large mural celebrating the scope Dr. Seuss’s career, starting with And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street (1937) and ending with Oh, the Places You’ll Go! (1991).
Sit on a motorcycle beside a Mulberry Street police officer. Many believe Springfield’s Indian Motocycles helped inspire the motorcycles ridden by the officers in Mulberry Street. You might also notice the glass-art chandelier with its colorful lights and whimsical trumpets, this Seuss-inspired fixture was created by glass-artist Dave Colton.
Characters Represented
- Marco from And To Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street (1937)
- Propeller-assisted flying animal from One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish (1960)
- The man with the horse and the wagon from And To Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street (1937)
- Marvin K. Mooney riding in a Zumble Zay from Marvin K. Mooney, Will You Please Go Now! (1972)
- A stout fish from McElligot’s Pool (1947)
- Thing and Sue and a too-long, long, long song from Hop on Pop (1963)
- The King and Bartholomew Cubbins from The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins (1938)
- Gertrude McFuzz from Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories (1968)
- King Looie from Katzen-stein from I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today and Other Stories (1969)
- Gump’s seven hump Wump from One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish (1960)
- A Guff from Oh, The Thinks You Can Think (1975)
- The airplane confetti guys from And To Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street (1937)
- The signpost from And To Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street (1937)
- The protagonist from I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew (1965)
- Yertle the Turtle from Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories (1968)
- A rocket ship from On Beyond Zebra (1954)
- King Looie’s subject where all cats carry their own tails from I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today and Other Stories (1969)
- Yink from One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish (1960)
- Bim and Ben leading bands with brooms from Fox in Sox (1965)
- The Lorax from The Lorax (1971)
- The tongue twister bird from Oh Say Can You Say (1979)
- Horton and the elephant-bird from Horton Hatches an Egg (1940)
- Low creature from One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish (1960)