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
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!
Continuing our countdown to Disneyland's anniversary, we'd like to share an piece from "Walt's People — Volume 3: Talking Disney wit the Artists Who Knew Him". This excerpt is from an interview with Disney Legend Bill Justice, who worked for The Walt Disney Company from 1937 to 1979, first as an animator, and then as an Imagineer.
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!
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.