The Walt Disney Family Museum Blog

Posted on Thu, 08/16/2012 - 11:00
Posted on Aug 16, 2012
As Fantasia is a feature film made up of eight animated segments, we've taken the film apart to focus on each segment individually. Today, we are thrilled to present to you a piece from our neighbors, one of the world's leading dance companies: The San Francisco Ballet!
Posted on Wed, 08/15/2012 - 12:00
Posted on Aug 15, 2012
As the world’s best athletes prepared their minds and bodies to compete for gold in London two weeks ago, a group of Bay Area museum staffers were preparing for a different kind of challenge: how to leverage the Olympic torch’s fiery brightness to shine a little light on art and culture. Thus began the story of the #MuseumOlympics.
Posted on Mon, 08/13/2012 - 13:00
Posted on Aug 13, 2012

http://waltdisney.org/calendarIn celebration of National Book Week (August 18-24), Disney author and historian J.B. Kaufman will be visiting the Museum on Saturday, August 25 at 3pm to discuss Disney’s Big Little Books!

Posted on Tue, 08/07/2012 - 14:00
Posted on Aug 7, 2012

As Fantasia is a feature film made up of eight animated segments, we've taken the film apart to focus on each segment individually. Today, Academy Award-winning filmmaker John Canemaker has graciously penned this piece--which gives us a more intimate look at "The Pastoral Scene"--exclusively for Storyboard.  

Posted on Thu, 08/02/2012 - 12:00
Posted on Aug 2, 2012
After the success of Snow White, Disney constructed a new, state-of-the-art studio on Buena Vista Street in Burbank, California. One of the first two animated features completed there was a series of animated sequences set to classical music, known early on as The Concert Feature... here's a look at the first cartoon that jumpstarted its creation: The Sorcerer's Apprentice!
Posted on Wed, 08/01/2012 - 11:45
Posted on Aug 1, 2012
Experience the stunning symphonic masterpiece film Fantasia (1940)--as well as Fantasia-related programs, classes, and activities--at The Walt Disney Family Museum throughout the month of August!
Posted on Tue, 07/31/2012 - 11:00
Posted on Jul 31, 2012
While the world turns its attention towards the thrilling events taking place in London, we at The Walt Disney Family Museum cannot help but to look back in time fifty years to the 1960 Winter Olympics for which Walt Disney served as the Chairman of the Pageantry Committee.
Posted on Thu, 07/26/2012 - 11:30
Posted on Jul 26, 2012
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 the Mahnke-Baum family!
Posted on Tue, 07/24/2012 - 09:00
Posted on Jul 24, 2012

The Walt Disney Family Museum presents Animate Your Night—a new Museum-wide monthly after-hours party. Experience the galleries in a whole new light and illuminate your imagination with music, performance, film screenings, and hands-on art activities!

Posted on Thu, 07/19/2012 - 15:00
Posted on Jul 19, 2012

On Saturday July 14, Academy Award®-winning filmmaker John Canemaker presented a behind-the-scenes look at how Walt Disney as inpsired by Heinrich Kley and other European artists, and how their art was translated into many Disney versions of famous stories and tales. .