[Tom Morrow]

Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco's Presidio

Disney museum moving ahead with little criticism San Francisco Examiner While the news of Doris and Donald Fisher’s contemporary art museum proposed for the Presidio’s historic Main Parade Ground has made headlines as well as drawn some criticism for its modern architectural design, another major project in development at the former Army base — the Walt Disney Family Museum — is moving forward with little attention. Approved in the fall of 2006 by the Presidio Trust — the panel created by the federal government to oversee operations of the former military base, which is now part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area — the Walt Disney Family Museum will incorporate 56,000 square feet in three buildings of the Presidio’s hallowed Main Post. Construction started in September 2007 and is expected to be completed by September 2009, said Walt Miller, grandson of Walt Disney and president of the Walt Disney Family Foundation, a nonprofit organization which has been a Presidio tenant since 2001. The museum will house drawings, photographs and other documents related to the iconic Disney founder, Miller said, adding that his grandfather’s strong admiration of the military connected ideally with the Presidio’s past. by Will Reisman complete article

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