Featured Experience
Weekends only, dates and times vary
Connect objects in our galleries with the stories behind them as we look closer at Walt Disney's life and legacy. Join a museum staff member for a brief exploration of topics central to Walt's life.
New Book
On Sale Now
Readers of all ages and backgrounds will be inspired and entertained by images and stories of the unique personal ephemera, artifacts, and treasures found in the book, which include Walt’s handwritten designs of EPCOT, the bronzed hat gifted to his...
Featured Experience
Book Now
Enjoy the perfect Disney celebration with a birthday party at The Walt Disney Family Museum! Choose from a selection of classic Disney movies to be inspired by and create the birthday party of your dreams.
Current Exhibition
New Object Every Two Months
October 2024–September 2025
October 2024–September 2025
To celebrate the release of our new book, Walt Disney Treasures: Personal Art and Artifacts from The Walt Disney Family Museum, we are displaying rare and unique objects from the collection that are also featured in the book. Some of the artifacts...
Enjoy the Museum from Anywhere
Navigate through all of our gallery spaces with our 360˚ museum tour.
Featured Experience
Weekends only, dates and times vary
Connect objects in our galleries with the stories behind them as we look closer at Walt Disney's life and legacy. Join a museum staff member for a brief exploration of topics central to Walt's life.
New Book
On Sale Now
Readers of all ages and backgrounds will be inspired and entertained by images and stories of the unique personal ephemera, artifacts, and treasures found in the book, which include Walt’s handwritten designs of EPCOT, the bronzed hat gifted to his...
Featured Experience
Book Now
Enjoy the perfect Disney celebration with a birthday party at The Walt Disney Family Museum! Choose from a selection of classic Disney movies to be inspired by and create the birthday party of your dreams.
Current Exhibition
New Object Every Two Months
October 2024–September 2025
October 2024–September 2025
To celebrate the release of our new book, Walt Disney Treasures: Personal Art and Artifacts from The Walt Disney Family Museum, we are displaying rare and unique objects from the collection that are also featured in the book. Some of the artifacts...
Enjoy the Museum from Anywhere
Navigate through all of our gallery spaces with our 360˚ museum tour.
Featured Experience
Weekends only, dates and times vary
Connect objects in our galleries with the stories behind them as we look closer at Walt Disney's life and legacy. Join a museum staff member for a brief exploration of topics central to Walt's life.
“Gawrsh!” It’s time to pack up our bags and hit the road for A Goofy Movie’s (1995) 30th anniversary. Spend the day with us in this Studio Series, as...
Sat, Apr 19 | 10:30am–noon
Workshops
The Art Playground is for families with children ages 3 to 6. In our Learning Center, we will be embracing the Spring season and teaching simple art...
Fri & Sat, Apr 25 & 26 | 10am–noon
Join us for an exclusive conversation with Japanese American artist Willie Ito about his inspiring decades-long career in animation. After Ito and his...
Sat, May 10 | 1pm
On March 18, 1967, the beloved attraction Pirates of the Caribbean opened at Disneyland. “Arrr you ready to sail on into our theater to celebrate this...
Sat & Sun, Mar 1–30 | 2pm
No screening Mar 9 or 15
No screening Mar 9 or 15
Sundays this March, The Walt Disney Family Museum presents a special sensory-friendly film screening of Walt Disney Animation Studios Short Films...
Sun, Mar 2–30 | 11am
No screening Mar 9
No screening Mar 9
Join us for a very special Storytime with illustrator and art director Eliza Reisfeld, who will be reading <em>My Zoo: A Book of Feelings</em>, a book...
Sun, Mar 30 | 11am
In this workshop, students will practice their observation skills by drawing from reference and breaking down basic shapes of animals. From here...
Sun, Mar 30 | 1:30pm
Join us for an in-depth look at the new book, After Disney: Toil, Trouble, and the Transformation of America's Favorite Media Company, with author...
Sat, Apr 5 | 1pm
It is time to dust off those shoes, hit the dance floor, and “set the world in motion” for Disney’s A Goofy Movie’s (1995) 30th anniversary. Join us...
Sat, Apr 12 | 10:30am–noon
“Gawrsh!” It’s time to pack up our bags and hit the road for A Goofy Movie’s (1995) 30th anniversary. Spend the day with us in this Studio Series, as...
Sat, Apr 19 | 10:30am–noon
Workshops
The Art Playground is for families with children ages 3 to 6. In our Learning Center, we will be embracing the Spring season and teaching simple art...
Fri & Sat, Apr 25 & 26 | 10am–noon
Join us for an exclusive conversation with Japanese American artist Willie Ito about his inspiring decades-long career in animation. After Ito and his...
Sat, May 10 | 1pm
On March 18, 1967, the beloved attraction Pirates of the Caribbean opened at Disneyland. “Arrr you ready to sail on into our theater to celebrate this...
Sat & Sun, Mar 1–30 | 2pm
No screening Mar 9 or 15
No screening Mar 9 or 15
Sundays this March, The Walt Disney Family Museum presents a special sensory-friendly film screening of Walt Disney Animation Studios Short Films...
Sun, Mar 2–30 | 11am
No screening Mar 9
No screening Mar 9
Join us for a very special Storytime with illustrator and art director Eliza Reisfeld, who will be reading <em>My Zoo: A Book of Feelings</em>, a book...
Sun, Mar 30 | 11am
In this workshop, students will practice their observation skills by drawing from reference and breaking down basic shapes of animals. From here...
Sun, Mar 30 | 1:30pm
Join us for an in-depth look at the new book, After Disney: Toil, Trouble, and the Transformation of America's Favorite Media Company, with author...
Sat, Apr 5 | 1pm
It is time to dust off those shoes, hit the dance floor, and “set the world in motion” for Disney’s A Goofy Movie’s (1995) 30th anniversary. Join us...
Sat, Apr 12 | 10:30am–noon
“Gawrsh!” It’s time to pack up our bags and hit the road for A Goofy Movie’s (1995) 30th anniversary. Spend the day with us in this Studio Series, as...
Sat, Apr 19 | 10:30am–noon
Workshops
The Art Playground is for families with children ages 3 to 6. In our Learning Center, we will be embracing the Spring season and teaching simple art...
Fri & Sat, Apr 25 & 26 | 10am–noon
Join us for an exclusive conversation with Japanese American artist Willie Ito about his inspiring decades-long career in animation. After Ito and his...
Sat, May 10 | 1pm
Gallery 2
The Move to Hollywood
Walt landed his first major contract, opened a new studio, and fell in love with an inker. A sudden turn of events would spark the idea for Mickey Mouse.
It’s a story that has become almost legendary. But it’s much better, in fact, because it’s true. On many a Friday afternoon at the Walt Disney Studios during the mid-1960s, Walt Disney would call...
Ask any dedicated Disney fan and they will tell you: Walt loved trains. “Trains were a part of his whole psyche, I think,” Disney Legend Tony Baxter shared in the Disney+ Original Series Behind the...
Walt Disney was no stranger to London. Multiple visits to England between the 1930s and 1950s—often for on-set visits to his live-action films such as Treasure Island (1950), The Story of Robin Hood...
Overture
The year is 1935. America is mid-way through the Great Depression. The Dust Bowl is devastating the prairies. A war-weary world, whether aware or not, is a few short years from one of its...
Since childhood, Walt Disney had been a fan of the works of Jules Verne, including the author’s classic 1870 science-fiction novel, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. But later, as a film producer, he was...
In honor of the opening of our latest special exhibition, Directing at Disney, exhibition co-curator and animation historian Don Peri shared his thoughts about his friendship and collaboration with to...
On view February–March 2025.
To celebrate the release of our new book, Walt Disney Treasures: Personal Art and Artifacts from The Walt Disney Family Museum, we are displaying rare and unique...
Strolling the galleries at The Walt Disney Family Museum, visitors discover how brothers Walt and Roy O. Disney formed a business partnership in October 1923. They quickly began producing animated short subjects known as the Alice Comedies from a small office in Los Angeles.
It was late July 1923 and Walt Disney had failed. His Laugh-O-gram Films was headed for bankruptcy and, with little prospects left in Kansas City, Missouri, he was pulling up stakes. Hollywood was his...
It’s a story that has become almost legendary. But it’s much better, in fact, because it’s true. On many a Friday afternoon at the Walt Disney Studios during the mid-1960s, Walt Disney would call...
Ask any dedicated Disney fan and they will tell you: Walt loved trains. “Trains were a part of his whole psyche, I think,” Disney Legend Tony Baxter shared in the Disney+ Original Series Behind the...
Walt Disney was no stranger to London. Multiple visits to England between the 1930s and 1950s—often for on-set visits to his live-action films such as Treasure Island (1950), The Story of Robin Hood...
Overture
The year is 1935. America is mid-way through the Great Depression. The Dust Bowl is devastating the prairies. A war-weary world, whether aware or not, is a few short years from one of its...
Since childhood, Walt Disney had been a fan of the works of Jules Verne, including the author’s classic 1870 science-fiction novel, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. But later, as a film producer, he was...
In honor of the opening of our latest special exhibition, Directing at Disney, exhibition co-curator and animation historian Don Peri shared his thoughts about his friendship and collaboration with to...
On view February–March 2025.
To celebrate the release of our new book, Walt Disney Treasures: Personal Art and Artifacts from The Walt Disney Family Museum, we are displaying rare and unique...
Strolling the galleries at The Walt Disney Family Museum, visitors discover how brothers Walt and Roy O. Disney formed a business partnership in October 1923. They quickly began producing animated short subjects known as the Alice Comedies from a small office in Los Angeles.
It was late July 1923 and Walt Disney had failed. His Laugh-O-gram Films was headed for bankruptcy and, with little prospects left in Kansas City, Missouri, he was pulling up stakes. Hollywood was his...
It’s a story that has become almost legendary. But it’s much better, in fact, because it’s true. On many a Friday afternoon at the Walt Disney Studios during the mid-1960s, Walt Disney would call...
Ask any dedicated Disney fan and they will tell you: Walt loved trains. “Trains were a part of his whole psyche, I think,” Disney Legend Tony Baxter shared in the Disney+ Original Series Behind the...
Walt Disney was no stranger to London. Multiple visits to England between the 1930s and 1950s—often for on-set visits to his live-action films such as Treasure Island (1950), The Story of Robin Hood...