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The Walt Disney Family Museum (WDFM) is an American museum that features the life and legacy of Walt Disney. The museum is located in The Presidio of San Francisco, part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area in San Francisco. The museum retrofitted and expanded three existing historic buildings on the Presidio's Main Post. [1]
Among the Presidio's residents is The Bay School of San Francisco, a private, coeducational college preparatory school located in the central Main Post area. Others include The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Tides Foundation, the Arion Press, Sports Basement Presidio, and The Walt Disney Family Museum, a museum in the memory of Walt Disney ...
This list of museums in the San Francisco Bay Area is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
Disney At the newest addition to the Disney franchise, The Walt Disney Family Museum, the world's favorite mouse is just a small part of the equation. Instead, the museum's mission is to present ...
In 2008, Benefield became the founding executive director of The Walt Disney Family Museum, which opened October 1, 2009 [11] [12] in San Francisco’s Presidio. [13] [14] Along with museum co-founder Diane Disney Miller, oldest daughter of Walt Disney, Benefield helped establish the organization as an institution devoted to academically ...
D23 Presents Treasures of the Walt Disney Archives, Opening October 16, 2013, at the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago 90 Years of Disney Imagination, Innovation and Entertainment Come to ...
In 2009, the Walt Disney Family Museum, designed by Disney's daughter Diane and her son (Walt's grandson) Walter E. D. Miller, opened in the Presidio of San Francisco. [37] The museum was established to promote and inspire creativity and innovation and celebrate and study the life of Walt Disney. [38]
[155] [v] Walt Disney World expanded with the opening of Epcot Center in 1982; Walt Disney's vision of a functional city was replaced by a park more akin to a permanent world's fair. [157] In 2009, the Walt Disney Family Museum, designed by Disney's daughter Diane and her son Walter E. D. Miller, opened in the Presidio of San Francisco. [158]