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On Saturday April 14, we invited our Members and other esteemed guests to our annual Mad Hatter's Tea Party. Here's a brief photo recap of the highlights...

Inspiration comes from many places.  This Arbor Day we celebrate Walt Disney’s Dreaming Tree, where as a child he found much of his inspiration.  A large Cottonwood tree located on the family farm in Marceline, Missouri, it was said that Walt and Ruth would spend warm days enjoying the shade of the towering canopy...

A stone's throw from the Museum is a stretch of highway that connects San Francisco with the Golden Gate Bridge. Locals call this road Doyle Drive and it's being slowly transformed into what will eventually be known as Presidio Parkway. After the dust settles, we'll have a thoroughfare that improves traffic and is more seismically stable...

The inspiration of and appreciation for Walt Disney knows no boundaries. The Membership at The Walt Disney Family Museum certainly reflects this diversity. Each month, we introduce you to one of our Members, so you can see the varied and frequently fascinating people who have come together to learn and experience more about the life, work, philosophies, and ideals of Walt Disney. This month, we’d like you to meet member Marty Fung!

The TCM Film Festival, to me, is a lot like Christmas: We wait all year for it, and it goes by too quickly.

For four amazing days every April, it is as close to cinematic heaven as to which a film buff is likely to get, and this year was no exception.  The Walt Disney Family Museum and D23 were on hand to put Disney in the mix of silents, film noirs, epics, and comedies that were being screened at the Chinese and Egyptian theaters...

In the late 1940s, Walt Disney was considering whether to continue with feature animation. The studio was deeply in debt after World War II--in fact, no Disney feature had returned a profit since Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The war had dried up foreign revenues for features released during the early ‘40s (Pinocchio, Fantasia, Dumbo and Bambi). Animated features, then in production, were suspended when the United States entered WW II...

Now that you've read what inspires the designers at Disney Bridal, we'd love to see what inspires YOU. Sketch/design/draw up your own Disney Princess-inspired gown, and send us your artwork storyboard@wdfmuseum.org. We'd love to see where your imagination takes you!

Disney Style has been our focus here at The Walt Disney Family Museum throughout April as we look into the evolving design sophistication of Disney animation--specifically brought to the fore with the production of Cinderella. In celebrating the evolution of creativity and design, we were thrilled to get the chance to sit down with Disney Fairy Tale Weddings designer Michael Shettel--Vice President of Design for Alfred Angelo--and pick his brain on what sparks his creativity, and how these beautiful Disney Princess-inspired gowns get translated from off the easel and down the aisle.

The Lobby of the Walt Disney Family Museum stands as a testament to the wide-ranging successes of Walt Disney’s career. Here visitors find a collection of awards received by Walt Disney for achievements not only for filmmaking, but for contributions to a variety of fields and industries... 

From May 11 to September 17,  the works of Heinrich Kley, a unique German illustrator, will be on display at The Walt Disney Family Museum. He was a profound influence on Walt Disney and the studio artists, who used his fantastic, dark and satirical drawings as inspiration for their animation. Although his style and work left behind a lasting impression on the world, the man behind the pen is still a mystery...