The San Francisco Arts Education Project, in cooperation with the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, presents INTERNATIONAL ORANGE: The Bridge Re-imagined, an exhibition featuring artwork created by students from San Francisco public schools to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge.
The Walt Disney Family Museum is looking for volunteers to help share the history of animation, film, and the life and legacy of Walt Disney with guests from around the world. Volunteers work directly with visitors sharing the inspirational and interactive experience of 10 galleries that narrate the life and work of Walt Disney. We are currently seeking volunteers to help grow our Gallery Attendant and Special Event Assistant rosters.
Having formed RKO-Walt Disney British Productions Lts., and succeeded in filming a most creditable live-action feature, Walt Disney decided to continue making films in England, with Perce Pearce as his producer. They decided to continue in the action-adventure genre, and chose as their next project Robin Hood...
Walt Disney’s second live-action feature produced in England,The Story of Robin Hood, differed from the first, Treasure Island, in some important ways. Legends involving the mythical character of Robin Hood had circulated for hundreds of years, and by the time Walt tackled his film, many of those legends had already found their way to the screen in numerous film adaptations.
Each month, we ask a museum staff member to answer five questions about their position at The Walt Disney Family Museum, their fondest Disney memories, and personal tidbits. We've asked our special Heinrich Kley: From Fantasy to Fantasia exhibition's co-curator Michael Labrie... what do YOU do?
The moment when Cinderella is transformed from her tattered rags into her shimmering ball gown is said to have been one of Walt Disney’s favorite pieces of animation. The significance and legacy of the treasured Disney animated feature Cinderella are indisputable. The film was the studio’s first unqualified hit since 1937’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and restored financial stability to the debt-ridden postwar studio.
“It’s always a challenge bringing a great story classic to the screen,” Walt Disney once said, “giving visual form to characters and places that have only existed in the imagination. But it’s the kind of challenge we enjoy.”
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...
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...
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...