Current Exhibition

Veterans' Voices: Painted Realities
Virtual Exhibition Open Now

In honor of Veterans Day, The Walt Disney Family Museum is pleased to debut its fifth Community Access Exhibition, Veterans’ Voices: Painted Realities, featuring original artworks by U.S. military veterans. The exhibition will serve as a platform for...

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Featured Experience

Happy Haunts Tour
Friday, October 30

Join us for an interactive tour of the museum's main galleries, highlighting the production of The Skeleton Dance (1929), the conception of prominent cinematic villains from Walt Disney's animation career, the highly-anticipated opening of the Haunte...

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Virtual Fundraiser

An Evening with Alan Menken
Thu, Aug 6

Join us for a musical and storytelling experience with Oscar®-, Grammy®-, Tony®-, and Golden Globe®-winning composer and songwriter Alan Menken, with special guest Lin-Manuel Miranda.

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Join Editor Ellen Keneshea for behind-the-scenes stories from her work on Walt Disney Animation Studios’ The Lion King (1994), Pocahontas (1995), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996), Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001), and Meet the Robinsons (2007), as well as her work on the documentaries Waking Sleeping Beauty (2009) and Disneynature’s Oceans (2009).

Conservator's Corner: The Pinocchio Maquette

Posted on Thu, 07/09/2020 - 16:03

This Pinocchio character model sculpture, commonly referred to as a maquette, was created by The Walt Disney Studios Character Model Department during the production of Pinocchio (1940).

“A Story Without End” Walt Disney and the Johnny Tremain Movie

Posted on Thu, 07/02/2020 - 14:03

In late May 1957, American television viewers gathered for another weekly installment of the Disneyland program. Entitled “The Liberty Story,” Walt Disney greeted viewers at a record player, played the song “The Liberty Tree,” and explained that “the liberties which we enjoy and take for granted didn’t just happen. They had to be won. … Behind our liberties there’s an interesting story…”

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