As the world’s best athletes prepared their minds and bodies to compete for gold in London two weeks ago, a group of Bay Area museum staffers were preparing for a different kind of challenge: how to leverage the Olympic torch’s fiery brightness to shine a little light on art and culture. Thus began the story of the #MuseumOlympics.
http://waltdisney.org/calendarIn celebration of National Book Week (August 18-24), Disney author and historian J.B. Kaufman will be visiting the Museum on Saturday, August 25 at 3pm to discuss Disney’s Big Little Books!
As Fantasia is a feature film made up of eight animated segments, we've taken the film apart to focus on each segment individually. Today, Academy Award-winning filmmaker John Canemaker has graciously penned this piece--which gives us a more intimate look at "The Pastoral Scene"--exclusively for Storyboard.
After the success of Snow White, Disney constructed a new, state-of-the-art studio on Buena Vista Street in Burbank, California. One of the first two animated features completed there was a series of animated sequences set to classical music, known early on as The Concert Feature... here's a look at the first cartoon that jumpstarted its creation: The Sorcerer's Apprentice!
Experience the stunning symphonic masterpiece film Fantasia (1940)--as well as Fantasia-related programs, classes, and activities--at The Walt Disney Family Museum throughout the month of August!
While the world turns its attention towards the thrilling events taking place in London, we at The Walt Disney Family Museum cannot help but to look back in time fifty years to the 1960 Winter Olympics for which Walt Disney served as the Chairman of the Pageantry Committee.
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 the Mahnke-Baum family!
The Walt Disney Family Museum presents Animate Your Night—a new Museum-wide monthly after-hours party. Experience the galleries in a whole new light and illuminate your imagination with music, performance, film screenings, and hands-on art activities!
On Saturday July 14, Academy Award®-winning filmmaker John Canemaker presented a behind-the-scenes look at how Walt Disney as inpsired by Heinrich Kley and other European artists, and how their art was translated into many Disney versions of famous stories and tales. .
“To all who come to this happy place: Welcome. Disneyland is your land. Here, age relives fond memories of the past, and here youth may savor the challenge and promise of the future. Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams, and the hard facts that have created America, with the hope that it will be a source of joy and inspiration to all the world.” - Walt Disney