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Tinker Bell is one of the most iconic characters to emerge from the legacy that Walt Disney left behind, and behind every great character was real-life inspiration.

Take your Walt Disney Family Museum membership out on the town and enjoy complimentary admission to the partner museums listed below. Present your Walt Disney Family Museum membership card to obtain two free admissions per membership at each location; some restrictions apply.

The Walt Disney Family Museum Teen Animation Festival International (TAFI) celebrates animation created by artists ages 13 through 19. TAFI invites entries from around the world and offers both educational and collaborative opportunities as well as a chance to win great prizes.

In this fun and hands-on session, learn how to make your drawings truly come to life and put your creativity in the spotlight. An instructor will teach you step-by-step instructions on how to draw an original cartoon character. This workshop is for artists of all ages.

Walt Disney would bring animals or actors into the Studios for his artists to study in preparation for an animated project. Walt felt live action reference was crucial for an animator to understand the natural movement and design of a subject they were about to animate.

Walt Disney would bring animals or actors into the Studios for his artists to study in preparation for an animated project. Walt felt live action reference was crucial for an animator to understand the natural movement and design of a subject they were about to animate.

In the animated short Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom (1953), Walt Disney and his team of animators, stylized the film with heavy influences from mid-century cubist art. Ward Kimball, a co-director of the Oscar®-winning short, wanted to experiment with the fundamentals of this new world and recruited artists Tom Oreb and Marc Davis to help further the designs of the project.

Visit us this summer for an audio and visual immersion into Walt Disney’s classical music masterpiece, Fantasia (1940). Considering how music can be used to tell a story, set a mood, or conjure images in an audience’s mind, educators will produce their own artwork to accompany the sounds of Claude Debussy’s Clair de Lune.

Brought to life by the music of Alan Menken and Howard Ashman, this new classic takes audiences under the sea, where they encounter enthralling, magical creatures of the deep.

Join us for a special screening of the Academy Award®-winning short Dear Basketball (2017), animated by Disney Legend Glean Keane and written by NBA star Kobe Bryant. Set to a beautiful score by the masterful John Williams and narrated by Bryant, we follow a young Kobe’s journey from childhood dreamer to basketball stardom.

Join American humorist and writer Robert Benchley as he tries to peddle a story idea to Walt Disney himself. Get lost with Benchley at the Studios and learn about how The Walt Disney Company of 1941 created films that entertain audiences of all ages.

Follows the story of a young warrior leading her kingdom, while being forced to keep her magical abilities a secret in this beautifully animated short by Glen Keane. Created by Keane for Riot Games’ League of Legends video game and set to electronic artist Bassnectar’s track “Butterfly,” this animation takes viewers on a whimsical journey alongside Lux the Lady of Luminosity as she prepares for battle.

Celebrate the King of the Wild Frontier and relive the story of a real-life American hero who inspired an entire generation.

In conjunction with our special exhibition, Make Believe: The World of Glen Keane, we are happy to present this re-imagining of the classic fairy tale of Rapunzel and her magical hair.

For the Studios’ third full-length animated feature, Walt Disney partnered with the brilliant composer Leopold Stokowski to produce a new, groundbreaking film where music was the main character.

A dream is a wish your heart makes, and fairy godmothers are often very helpful in making those dreams come true!

We hope you like Dalmatian puppies—one hundred and one Dalmatian puppies to be exact! In this animated adventure, time is against Pongo and Perdita as they seek to thwart Cruella De Vil’s sinister intentions towards their adorable brood of puppies.

Walt Disney’s Nine Old Men were a group of animators who were responsible for some of the most impressive and memorable work created at The Walt Disney Studios from the early Mickey Mouse cartoons through the mid-1980s. Toward the end of their animation careers, these artists became vital mentors to the up-and-coming animators recently hired at the Studios.

Discover what it takes to create a 3D animated film and learn what it takes to be a professional animator during this two-week intensive. Begin with the basics of both software and animation principles, then create in-depth examples demonstrating what you have learned.

Be prepared to rethink and re-imagine ideas and designs as you learn what it takes to be an animator in this two-week class. Drawing, painting, and sculpting techniques will be explored alongside The 12 Principles of Animation, with an emphasis on Timing, Spacing, and Staging. Students will create multiple animation tests and a final project done in paper cut out animation.