Through in-depth and engaging outreach programming, we serve the Bay Area and continue our history of programming with our community—rather than for it.
Creative Classrooms
Creative Classrooms is The Walt Disney Family Museum’s local school partnership program, giving Bay Area students an opportunity for educational initiatives at the school during their 2026-27 school year. This program is designed to inspire learning, creativity, and innovation across the curricula through inquiry-based, hands-on activities related to the life of Walt Disney and the art of animation. This can include aspects such as story-driven narratives, character design, visual development, and animation principles taught by our museum’s Education Team.
Extended Learning
Extended Learning is The Walt Disney Family Museum’s local after-school partnership program, giving San Francisco Bay Area students an opportunity to engage with art and animation in creative and inspiring ways during the 2026-27 school year within their school’s after-school programs. Through hands-on activities related to the life of Walt Disney, students will explore important elements of art and the animation process. This can include aspects such as story-driven narratives, character design, visual development, and animation principles taught by our museum’s Education team.
Virtual Tour
Outside of the Bay Area? Now students can visit The Walt Disney Family Museum without ever leaving school. Benefitting from embedded digital media content, this walk-through the museum brings Walt’s inspirational message to life. Classes learn about his early failures, the art of animation, storytelling principles, and the technological innovations that made classics like Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) possible.
Title I Partnerships
The museum partners with nine Title I schools in the greater Bay Area, providing transportation and ticket waivers for fieldtrips and classroom visits. In addition to the typical K-12 experience, this programming includes arts enrichment for young adults with developmental disabilities.
Access Exhibitions
Aimed at raising awareness, the museum highlights underserved members of our community through annual special exhibitions. Audiences served include artists with disabilities and seniors afflicted by memory disorders. Participants receive hands-on art instruction and visit the museum for inspiration.
Community Engagement
With appropriate lead time, the museum accepts invitations to participate in any number of community engagement requests: interactive STEAM nights, library Comic Con events, and other one-off educational fairs or activities.
To learn more, please contact education@wdfmuseum.org
Schedule is subject to change. For the most current schedule of events, please visit our calendar.