Within a short drive from each other in western Santa Rosa, there are two museums, each devoted to the work of one man.

One is the Charles M. Schulz Museum, just off West Steele Lane, commemorating the life’s work of the late cartoonist, world-famous as the creator of the “Peanuts” comic strip.

You’ve heard of that one.

This story is about the other one: Kimberly Mosier’s Rare Rock Mosaic Art Museum, a house remade as a public exhibition space at 3094 Coffey Lane, near Piner Road.

Where else can you see wall after wall three-dimensional, framed pictures, all made of polished rocks? Not just any rocks, mind you, but obsidian, mica, silicon, amethyst and more?

Most of the artist’s subjects are animals. A black bear looms out you. Birds take flight. And in a small side room, dinosaurs roam.

Mosier, 74, an investor and former real estate developer, opened the museum in 2001 and created the more than 60 pictures on display there.

“To my knowledge, I’m the only one in the world who does this, from obtaining these rocks, cutting them up, polishing them and making pictures entirely out of rocks,” Mosier says.

The museum’s a bit out of the way, and not exactly world-famous so far, but it is on the route for tour buses, and the display has proven especially popular with kids. Mosier leads the museum’s tours himself.

Part of the fun lies in the pun titles Mosier gives his artworks. The bear picture is called “Kodiak Moment,” a portrait of waterfowl is labeled, “Bills, Bills, Bills.”

The details: 10 a.m.-4 p. m. Monday through Friday. Admission is free. Call for group tours or information: 538-4008. Or visit www.mosierart.com.