Walt Disney's life to be honored in museum

The family of Walt Disney is commemorating his animation achievements in a brand new museum since they feel his memory has vanished behind the trademark.

According to an article on HollywoodReporter.com, "The Walt Disney Family Foundation, a nonprofit organization established in 1995 to promote education and writing about Disney as well as scholarships in his name, will open the Walt Disney Family Museum on Oct. 1 in San Francisco."

"My father's name is probably one of the most well-known names around the world, but as the 'brand' or trademark has spread, for many, the man has become lost," Disney's daughter and museum founder, Diane Disney Miller, said in a statement.

The museum will follow Disney's life from his birth in Chicago to his childhood in Missouri and then to his life-changing move to California in the 1920s where he married Lillian Bounds and his animation career took flight with the creation of the character called Mickey Mouse.

The HollywoodReporter.com article also delves into some of the exhibits that will be shown, "Among the exhibits on display will be early animation drawings, film clips, scripts, cameras and many of Disney's numerous Academy Awards, including an honorary Oscar in 1939 for his first feature length animation film 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.' There will also be a model of the Disneyland theme park he first envisioned, quite different from the park that opened in California in 1955, and a model of the Lily Belle train that ran on half a mile of track around his Hollywood home."

"Walt Disney reached people because he was a magical storyteller," said Richard Benefield, executive director of the museum. "Now it's our turn to tell his story, to narrate the life of someone whose name is often confused with a brand and to present him simply as a human being with an extraordinary vision."