Mondays through September 2
Mondays through September 2
The Walt Disney Family Museum is a premiere venue rental space in San Francisco. With exciting content and original exhibitions for all to enjoy, The Walt Disney Family Museum is happy to offer our space for celebrations and activities for all types of groups and ages.
Located in the Presidio of San Francisco, The Walt Disney Family Museum is one of the Bay Area’s most inspirational event and meeting venues. The breathtaking backdrop of the Golden Gate Bridge, coupled with the natural beauty of the surroundings, embrace this unique San Francisco event space.
For additional information and pricing, please contact our Events Manager at 415.345.6837 or events@wdfmuseum.org.
To celebrate Walt's South America Goodwill trip taken in 1941, we have Walt and Lillian's passports on display for a limited time in our Awards Lobby. The passports include country stamps and Uruguayan money from their trip.
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of The Walt Disney Company, The Walt Disney Family Museum is showcasing objects from the museum’s collection which highlight important moments in Walt’s career. These objects, which include recent acquisitions and fragile materials that have never...
Join us for an in-depth conversation with Visual Development Artist Griselda Sastrawinata-Lemay about designing unique costumes for Walt Disney Animation Studios’ 2023 feature film, Wish. In addition to her work on Wish, Sastrawinata-Lemay has designed costumes for various Frozen projects, Raya and...
Join us for a comprehensive discussion of the intersection of Walt Disney Imagineering and STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) with Disney Research Fellow and recent National Inventors Hall of Fame® inductee Lanny Smoot, whose inventions have been featured in Disney attractions...
Join the Banks children on a whirlwind adventure with their practically-perfect nanny Mary Poppins and her chimney-sweep pal, Bert, as they soar off to magical lands full of imagination, whimsy, and a bit of mischief. Slide up the banister and fly down to our theater to celebrate the 60th...
The Walt Disney Family Museum presents a special sensory-friendly film screening of the classic film One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961). To make this film a comfortable experience for all, lights will be dimmed instead of off, volume will be slightly lowered, and closed captioning will be turned...
Sundays this August, The Walt Disney Family Museum presents a special sensory-friendly film screening of Mary Poppins (1964). To make this film a comfortable experience for all, lights will be dimmed instead of off, volume will be slightly lowered, and closed captioning will be turned on. Guests are...
This invitation to the Disney’s’ “Tempus Fugit Celebration” is addressed to Diane and Ron Miller—their eldest daughter and son-in-law—and features a hand drawn map in colored pencil showing their guests how to navigate the newly-built park.
“Hakuna Matata” is the motto in this workshop! Join us in this Studio Series as we celebrate the 30th anniversary of Disney’s The Lion King (1994). Take a look behind the scenes of this beloved and acclaimed production and learn how reference material is pivotal to the process of animation. After...
Disney and Pixar’s Inside Out 2 (2024) returns to the mind of newly minted teenager Riley just as Headquarters is undergoing a sudden demolition to make room for something entirely unexpected: new Emotions! Join us for a virtual replay of a conversation and Q&A with the film’s Executive Producers...
Nancy Wolf, former Director of Facilities & Operations at The Walt Disney Family Museum, passed away on December 29, 2023, in St. Petersburg, Florida, surrounded by her family and friends.
After the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968, Charles Schulz received a letter from a concerned teacher who wanted to do something to “help change the conditions in our society which led to the assassination,” and thought that adding a Black character to his popular Peanuts comic strip...
Walt Disney had many friendly felines grace the screen in his films, and today is no exception! Whether it be a mischievous mouser like Mittens from Disney’s Bolt (2008) or a puzzling guide like Cheshire Cat from Alice in Wonderland (1951), each one of these whiskered pals has their own look...
Stop-motion animation dates back to the 19th century and has left a lasting impact on the world of cinema. Over the years, artists and animators have utilized stop-motion in various ways from experimental shorts to feature-length film. Join us in this eight-week class as we dive into the history of...
Walt Disney’s journey into the field of animation began with the stop-motion method. Before he started producing his own Laugh-O-gram short films, he worked for the Kansas City Film Ad Company, where he produced stop-motion commercials using paper cut-outs. Join us for this eight-week course and...
In this fun and hands-on session, learn how to make your drawings truly come to life and put your creativity in the spotlight! For artists of all ages, join us in our Art Studio where an instructor will teach you step-by-step instructions on how to create paper cut-out animation.
In this fun and hands-on session, learn how to make your drawings truly come to life and put your creativity in the spotlight! For artists of all ages, join us in our Art Studio where an instructor will teach you step-by-step instructions on how to draw a unique cartoon character.
Illustrator Norman Rockwell (1894–1978) and Walt Disney maintained a friendship and correspondence for many years. This 1935 edition of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, which features eight oil painting illustrations by Rockwell, is inscribed: “To Walt Disney, with sincere respect for his great art, Norman Rockwell.”