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Disney Insider: More News About the New Family Museum!

April 8, 2008

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Project Architect Ray Chung is helping to shape the face of the new Family Museum.

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Disney fans around the world have been waiting on tenterhooks for the Walt Disney Family Museum to expand from its virtual home on Disney.com to a physical presence on San Francisco's Presidio. The Insider recently got a chance to chat with Ray Chung, Project Architect and Manager with the Rockwell Group, which is handling the design of the "bricks and mortar" Museum. Although it will be months before the Museum is open to visitors, Ray was able to give us a look at what it will be like. Here's what he told us:

The Insider:

Please tell us a little bit about what a Museum visit will be like.

We have a lot of different audiences. We have a portion of the day meant for schoolchildren. So a school group will come in and a teacher or a guide will walk them through the different exhibits one by one and give them a chronology of Walt's life, hitting the high points and showing off the great artifacts and the fun interactives. Then later in the day we'll have it open to the tourists and other visitors who just want to ...

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April 9, 1954 - Actor Dennis Quaid, the star of Disney's 2002 live-action release "The Rookie' and the 1998 remake of Disney's "The Parent Trap," is born in Houston, Texas.

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April 12, 1992 - The Euro Disney Resort, featuring the Euro Disneyland Park, opens in France. It will later be renamed Disneyland Paris.

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