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The Walt Disney Family Museum is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization that was formally owned, operated and funded by the Walt Disney Family Foundation, a non-profit organization established by Disney's heirs including Diane Disney Miller, Disney's daughter and founder of the museum.
Though he did visit a few times, and though there are threads of Walt’s story that intersect with the Bay Area, The Walt Disney Family Museum isn’t here because of Walt—it’s here, primarily, because of his daughter, Diane Disney Miller, the museum’s co-founder.
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The museum is made up of three retrofitted and expanded historic buildings on the Presidio’s Main Post, which was an active Army base until 1994 and is now a national park. The museum was previously one of the iconic Montgomery Street barracks, dating from 1895, that was stripped long before the museum moved in. The main museum space is some 40,000...
The main museum features historic materials and artefacts relating to Disney’s life, including some 248 awards that Disney won during his career, such as Academy Awards and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. There are ten permanent galleries in place, starting with Walt Disney’s ancestral history and ending with his death in December 1966. The muse...
The Walt Disney Family Museum is located at 104 Montgomery Street in the Presidio of San Francisco, California. Be aware that there are two Montgomery Streets in San Francisco—the museum is located in the Presidio of San Francisco, not in the Financial District. If you are using a GPS remember to enter the zip code 94129 when planning your route. T...
It was dedicated and renamed in March 2014 in memory of the museum’s founder and Walt Disney’s daughter, Diane Disney Miller. The Riley Building Erected in 1908, 122 Riley served as a combination brick gymnasium and post exchange, which included gymnastic apparatuses and bowling alleys.
Diane Marie Disney-Miller (December 18, 1933 – November 19, 2013) [1] was the daughter and only biological child of Walt Disney and his wife Lillian Bounds Disney. [2] Diane co-founded the Walt Disney Family Museum alongside her family.
The museum is very much the work of Walt’s surviving daughter, Diane Disney Miller, who has created the Walt Disney Family Foundation. This nonprofit—funded entirely by Ms. Miller—runs the museum without any additional corporate backing, not even from the Walt Disney Company.
