Monday, April 20, 2009
For years, some of Walt Disney's most precious belongings have been locked away in a former Army storage building in San Francisco's Presidio.
Now, after nearly a decade of efforts by his eldest daughter, and help from the company that bears his name, Disney is getting his own museum, the first to focus solely on the life and work of the father of animated film.
Don't expect Disneyland north when the Walt Disney Family Museum opens in October in the historic Presidio. Instead what designers, Disney historians and family members, led by Diane Disney Miller, are planning is a $110 million museum filled with technology and artifacts chronicling the ups (and a few downs) of Disney's already much examined life.
The Disney showcase will help cement the Bay Area's reputation as the center of animation, said John Lasseter, a friend of Miller and chief creative officer at Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios. The Oscar-winning Lasseter began his animation career at Disney.
"Walt Disney has become synonymous with the Disney Company, and I think the museum will educate people and remind people it was the vision of one man," Lasseter said. "The Bay Area is so associated with technological innovation and it's applied here in so many different fields. Having the museum here will really celebrate not only his artistic achievements but his technological ones as well."
The Walt Disney Family Museum will have the unmistakable mark of his family foundation, the project's sponsor, which selected the location and in recent years has been on a mission to separate the public's image of the man from the company that he spawned.
SOURCE : http://www.mercurynews.com/lifestyle/ci_12179355
Now, after nearly a decade of efforts by his eldest daughter, and help from the company that bears his name, Disney is getting his own museum, the first to focus solely on the life and work of the father of animated film.
Don't expect Disneyland north when the Walt Disney Family Museum opens in October in the historic Presidio. Instead what designers, Disney historians and family members, led by Diane Disney Miller, are planning is a $110 million museum filled with technology and artifacts chronicling the ups (and a few downs) of Disney's already much examined life.
The Disney showcase will help cement the Bay Area's reputation as the center of animation, said John Lasseter, a friend of Miller and chief creative officer at Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios. The Oscar-winning Lasseter began his animation career at Disney.
"Walt Disney has become synonymous with the Disney Company, and I think the museum will educate people and remind people it was the vision of one man," Lasseter said. "The Bay Area is so associated with technological innovation and it's applied here in so many different fields. Having the museum here will really celebrate not only his artistic achievements but his technological ones as well."
The Walt Disney Family Museum will have the unmistakable mark of his family foundation, the project's sponsor, which selected the location and in recent years has been on a mission to separate the public's image of the man from the company that he spawned.
SOURCE : http://www.mercurynews.com/lifestyle/ci_12179355
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