Celebrate the closing of our special exhibition, Disney Cats & Dogs, with a very special Community Day event at The Walt Disney Family Museum. Join us—along with local, pet-focused organizations—for an opportunity to learn about pet care, sample pet products, create pet-inspired art, and meet...
In this two-week class, be prepared to reimagine ideas and designs as you learn what it takes to be an animator. Using animation principles with unconventional items, various traditional and experimental methods and practices will be explored. After multiple animation tests, students will use their...
Before he created his first animated short films, Walt Disney worked for the Kansas City Film Ad Company, where he produced stop-motion animation commercials using paper cut-outs. Since that era, stop-motion animation has developed physically and technologically, bringing grander sets and more...
Have you ever wanted to learn about hand-drawn animation while simultaneously exploring how computer-based tools can help your character move like a living being? Join us for this two-week intensive class that focuses on digital 2D animation using classical, hand-drawn skills. Combined with rigging...
Fashion is a form of history we wear! Join us for this two-week intensive class as you learn how to design memorable and original costumes from the past, present, and future. From body shape to color scheme and cloth, every visible element of an outfit can give a viewer insight into its wearer. As...
Who hasn’t doodled a creepy little creature in the margins of their homework? Or sketched an alien visitor from another planet? Perhaps a drawing of a mischievous monster that lives under the bed? In this class, you will illustrate unique depictions of creatures that live in the corners of our minds...
At the heart of every great artist is a strong foundation of skills allowing them to take their ideas and turn the imaginary into reality. Join us this summer for an intensive focusing on the fundamentals of drawing light and shadow. We will explore how light bounces, reflects, and brings dimensions...
Whether taking a trail into the dark woods, or a journey to a mysterious castle, or even a simple bike ride to school, stories can let your imagination visit and explore any place at any time! As the storyteller, you make the choices that lead the reader down the path of adventure. In this two-week...
Early forms of animation amused audiences and allowed for creative experimentation within the medium for budding animators. When sound-on-film technology came into existence, the world of animation changed forever! Characters could speak, react, and have conversations with each other, with endless...
Please note: The Walt Disney Family Museum will be closing at 4pm for a private event. Last entry to main galleries and special exhibitions at 3pm.
Join us for a behind-the-scenes look at the making of Self (2024)—a Pixar SparkShorts film about a wooden doll whose wish upon a star leads her down a path of self-discovery—with the film’s Director Searit Huluf and Producer Eric Rosales.
Walt collected, crafted, and curated a breadth of miniatures, including ceramics, glassware, silver cutlery, paper books and magazines, wooden furniture, musical instruments, dolls, faux fruits, candelabras, checkers and playing cards, and working firearms. This vase—which stands at just one-and-a-quarter inches tall—is finely crafted of porcelain, enamel, and gilding. Some of the hand-painted brushstrokes are the width of a human hair. This is part of a set of miniature porcelain vessels by the same artist, each with a different shape and design.
These early concept drawings show Walt’s thinking as he developed ideas for this utopian planned community. Three were composed on yellow legal pad paper, perhaps during discussions about the EPCOT development. The other was drawn on both sides of a paper napkin. They were found—crumpled in the trash—by Walt’s gardener, who stored them in a safe deposit box for many years. The museum acquired the drawings in 2011 from the gardener’s son.
Join us this May for a special month-long screening of the Academy Award®-winning animated feature Big Hero 6 (2014). Based on the popular Marvel comic book series, this is the story of a teenage robotics prodigy and Baymax, a healthcare robot, who team up with a group of first-time crime fighters...
Join us for a special presentation by artivist Nikkolas Smith as he shares his work at the intersection of art and activism, creating illustrations for films, books, apparel, and campaigns for social change. Smith created illustrations that were used in Marvel Studios' film Black Panther Wakanda...
Join us in welcoming artivist, illustrator, and children’s book author Nikkolas Smith for a special reading of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever: The Courage to Dream (2022, published by Marvel Press), an inspiring picture book about a young Wakandan who hopes to become one of the Dora Milaje, the...
Our new Featured Pet page showcases companions from around the world submitted by museum guests. Previously only seen within our Disney Cats & Dogs special exhibition, for its final month you can now enjoy viewing all our featured pets—from this month and previous months—on our website until the exhibition closes on June 2.
See below to check out featured pets from previous months.
The Walt Disney Family Museum welcomes groups for guided and self-guided visits. Groups of 10 or more receive discounted rates, additional venue rental options also available. For additional safety measures for your visit, please visit our Welcome Back page.
Join us in welcoming illustrator Lisa Brown and author Marcus Ewert for a special reading of Mummy Cat (2015, published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), a touching picture book about a feline mummy patiently awaiting the return of his beloved owner—a young Egyptian queen.
Our new Featured Pet page showcases companions from around the world submitted by museum guests. Previously only seen within our Disney Cats & Dogs special exhibition, for its final month you can now enjoy viewing all our featured pets—from this month and previous months—on our website until the exhibition closes on June 2.
See below to check out featured pets from this month and previous months.