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 FOUNDING MEMBER Walt Blanchard!
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. This month, we're asking our very own Byron Larsen... what do YOU do??
"Walt Disney's Disneyland liberates men to be their better selfs. The great thing is to walk around at Disneyland and see smiling people. And in the middle of the night you wake up and you feel something tugging at the corners of your mouth, and you put your hand up, and, by god, there's a smile there."
- Ray Bradbury
If you have yet to make your summer vacation plans here are some ideas from our Birthday Duck, Donald. An intrepid traveler, Donald Duck has explored the world and seen the sights. Maybe you are thinking of a Hawaiian Holiday for your summer get away. Donald and the gang traveled to Hawaii in 1937 and enjoyed many of the island experiences...
The Fillmore Auditorium has been a centerpiece of San Francisco music and culture for decades. The historic music venue sits on the corner of Fillmore Street and Geary Boulevard and is known for the stellar countercultural music acts it hosted during the 1960s, including The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin, Pink Floyd, The Doors and many others...
The Disneyland Resort is sure to be the hottest destination this summer with the opening of two new lands - Buena Vista Street and Cars Land at Disney California Adventure. Disney Imagineers have worked long and hard to bring more of Walt Disney into the newly expanded and enhanced Disney California Adventure.
The Disney attractions were some of the most popular at the 1964 World’s Fair, and from their successes, Walt gained confidence to move forward on his Florida project. Though he would never see the completion of the new project, the Fair helped lay the groundwork for the ever-expanding vistas of production undertaken by the Disney studio.
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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 member Janet Joyce!
During the month of July, The Walt Disney Family Museum is screening feature-length animated film The Sword in the Stone. Adapted from T. H. White’s novel of the same name, The Sword in the Stone is Disney’s take on a classic tale, bringing the story of King Arthur’s boyhood to life.
This Independence Day, we invite you all to visit The Walt Disney Family Museum to celebrate the life of a truly patriotic American legacy: Walt Disney. When Walt entered World War I, he worked as chauffer for the American Red Cross...
On Saturday, June 23, in the Walt Disney Family Museum Theater, Robert Tieman, past manager of the Walt Disney Archives at the Walt Disney Studios; gave the audience a glimpse at the process and content used in promoting early Disney films...
2719 Hyperion Avenue — the one location in Disney history that remains a constant fascination for many Disney fans. Eighty-seven years ago today, on July 6, 1925, Walt and Roy Disney made a $400 down payment on Lot 21, Block 18, in the Ivanhoe Track of Los Feliz on the eastern reaches of Hollywood.
All throughout this summer, we bring to you "Disneyland - The Quintessential Classics", which covers the must see attractions that made Walt Disney's Magic Kingdom, internationally known as "The Happiest Place on Earth". The tour continues this week with Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln!
In celebration of Disneyland's anniversary this coming Tuesday, we're posting stories all about The Happiest Place on Earth for a week leading up to it. This Friday the 13th, we asked Disney historian and author Jim Fanning to pen this piece about the Golden Horseshoe Revue, and Walt and Lillian's wedding anniversary celebration that happened at the Revue a few days before the park actually opened to the public.
Of the more than ten million enthusiastic audience members who enjoyed the Golden...
Continuing on with our week-long celebration leading up to Disneyland's anniversary, we take a brief look today at the Sword in the Stone attraction in Fantasyland!
As we're getting close to Disneyland's anniversary tomorrow, we'd like to dedicate this month's Artifactual to Walt's Disneyland TV series!