Walt Disney Family Museum

Visit an amazing place and immerse yourself in the remarkable life story of Walt Disney, who raised animation to an art and transformed the entertainment world! Located in the Presidio of San Francisco, The Walt Disney Family Museum welcomes visitors to an historic building that reveals 40,000 square feet of imagination. Contemporary interactive galleries and state-of-the-art exhibits are narrated in Walt’s own voice, and feature early drawings, cartoons, movies, music, listening stations, more than 200 video screens, and a 14-foot model of Disneyland. Founded by the Walt Disney Family Foundation.

Inside the Museum: An American Story
The stories of Disney’s life, creativity, family, and the processes and innovations he brought to his art are told through state-of-the-art exhibits in ten interactive galleries.
Highlights of the Museum include:
-Original drawings that Disney made in his youth
-Drawings and cartoons from Laugh-O-gram Films, Disney’s first company
-The earliest known drawings of Mickey Mouse
-Storyboards, a Disney innovation that maps out timeless film classics
-The technically innovative Multiplane Camera that brought vibrancy and depth to his revolutionary feature film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
-An interactive station that allows visitors to synchronize film and music
-Disney’s 26 individual Academy Awards as well as the unique Snow White Academy Award®, which includes a full-size Oscar® and seven miniature castings
-Gallery 9, an eye-popping 2-story gallery that features the narrow-gauge Lilly Belle train Disney built for his Hollywood home, a 14-foot diameter model of the Disneyland of Walt’s imagination and dozens of video screens that showcase his television programs from the 1950s and beyond
-In addition to the galleries, the Museum contains a 114-seat screening facility, a learning center and a store.

Throughout the exhibits, visitors will find rare film clips, concept art, scripts, musical scores and cameras that Disney and his staff used in creating his characters and films. The Museum’s visually exciting design incorporates drawings that come to life. This includes scenes from animated shorts and movies, over 200 monitors, and audio clips of Disney, his family and his colleagues narrating pivotal and entertaining moments in Disney’s life and career. Visitors can also see hundreds of individual animation cels that reveal the labor-intensive animation process.