The Walt Disney Family Museum
Interactive museum in a converted 1897 army barracks tracing one filmmaker's life through personal artifacts and film.
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This guide to The Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco follows Diane Disney Miller, Walt's eldest daughter, as she found this 1897 army barracks in the Presidio stripped down to bare brick in the early 2000s and decided a museum, not a book, could finally tell her father's true story. It traces her years spent on a documentary and the Walt Disney Concert Hall before she settled on this quiet, foggy corner of San Francisco, far from Burbank and Anaheim, to build it. Two hundred and forty-eight awards Walt won in his lifetime, Academy Awards among them, sit in the lobby behind you.
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