Walt Disney to Get Museum in San Francisco

The name Walt Disney carries with it a great deal of meaning. It is equated with majesty and children’s entertainment, movies and theme parks. Lost in all the fame, however, is the fact that Walt Dinsey was once just a humble animator and a regular person. The Disney family wants to change all that by opening a new museum to tell the human side of the story of Wal Disney.

The family contends that Walt Disney’s actual life and accomplishments have been overshadowed by the corporate giant that shares his name. Therefore the family, through the Walt Disney Family Foundation, a not for profit group started in the 1990s and which usually focuses on Walt Disney education and giving out scholarships, will open the Walt Disney museum in Northern California on the first of October, 2009.

The Walt Disney company films a slate of movies and releases them as Disney DVDs each year and as such, the Disney empire as has never been larger. But do the people know anything about the man, Walt Disney. Who today knows much about this man, Walt Disney, and the things that moved and drove him to become an animation pioneer and one of the founders of Hollywood.

With priceless items from his life, the Walt Disney Museum will endeavor to tell the story of Walt Disney through his early years in the mid west. The museum will also chronicle his move to Los Angeles in the 1920s where Walt Disney’s personal career began to emerge as his Mickey Mouse cartoon gained popularity.

The Walt Dinsey museum will feature many relics from Walt Disney’s past. Among the priceless artifacts that will be on exhibit include primitive animation sketches, bytes of film, rough drafts of movie scripts, and several of Walt Disney’s Academy Awards, including the one presented to him by the Academy for his first full length animated feature, “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.”

The museum will also exhibit a to-scale blueprint for the original Disney Land theme park. It will be interesting for individuals to see how varied the original plans were as compared to the finished product that debuted in the 1950s. The museum will feature a working model of the train which ran around the Dinsey estate.

Walt Disney, who passed away in 1966, created many movies that live on in children’s minds to this day. Among his biggest hits were “Sleeping Beauty,” “Fantasia,”
and “Cinderella.”