October 1, 2009
The Presidio House The Mouse Built: Disney Family Museum Opens
While CAMP never came to be, the Walt Disney Family Museum opened its doors today in a couple of renovated Presidio buildings. And for some coming from the south, it was a little harder to reach. On purpose.
∙ The Fishers Break CAMP With Respect To The Presidio's Main Post [SocketSite]
∙ The Walt Disney Family Museum [disney.com]
∙ Disney fans flock as Presidio museum opens [SFGate]
∙ Presidio Traffic Calming Study [presidio.gov]
First Published: October 1, 2009 5:00 PM
Comments from "Plugged In" Readers
Um, can someone tell me why there's a Disney museum in San Francisco -- let alone in the the historic Presidio? Doesn't it belong in Anaheim or Hollywood?
Posted by: invented at October 1, 2009 9:28 PM
It's perfect are you kidding? Forget about it. Its Mickey Mouse, Jake. The patron saint of SF logic.
Posted by: stucco-sux at October 1, 2009 9:57 PM
The museum isn't about Mickey Mouse, it's about Walt Disney himself, his life and accomplishments. And it's funded by a nonprofit foundation set up by his family, it has no official connection to the Disney corporation. So I assume they intentionally put it somewhere other than Anaheim or Hollywood so that it wouldn't be lost in the shadow of a theme park.
Perhaps there are some Disney family connections to SF too, I don't know.
Posted by: Dave at October 1, 2009 10:24 PM
"Perhaps there are some Disney family connections to SF too, I don't know."
His daughter, Diane Disney Miller, lives in San Francisco and was responsible for the idea of a museum about her father, and having it in San Francisco.
Posted by: Morgan at October 1, 2009 11:32 PM
The museum isn't about Mickey Mouse, it's about Walt Disney himself, his life and accomplishments. And it's funded by a nonprofit foundation set up by his family, it has no official connection to the Disney corporation.
The Walt Disney Family Museum website, linked above, is hosted on Disney's (the corporation) website, has the official Disney logo, and has a picture of Mickey Mouse which links to information about a screening of Fantasia which will be shown on the museum's new state of the art theater.
Yes, no official connection to the Disney Corporation :-)
Posted by: joh at October 2, 2009 12:19 AM
I wonder why Dianne didn't put the museum at
Silverado Vineyards that she owns with her husband on the Silverado Trail north of Napa?
Posted by: FormerAptBroker at October 2, 2009 7:13 AM
What Former Apt. Broker, and have it go the way of Copia?
Posted by: auden at October 4, 2009 4:54 PM
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