Visitors line up to enter the Walt Disney Family Museum. Disney's daughter, Diane Disney Miller, greeted the first visitors as she cut a ribbon to formally open the museumPhotograph: Eric Risberg/APA model of what Walt Disney imagined Disneyland would look like. Over 515 million people have visited the original Disneyland theme park in California since it opened to the public on 18 July 1955Photograph: Peter Lemieux/AFPA collection of Mickey Mouse watches and clocks Photograph: Eric Risberg /AP
Some of Walt Disney's early animation workPhotograph: Peter Lemieux/AFPThe Walt Disney Family Museum is located in a refurbished building at the former Presidio US army base in San FranciscoPhotograph: Peter Lemieux/AFPWalt Disney said he was inspired to draw Mickey Mouse after watching a rodent while working at Laugh-O-Gram studio in Kansas City, MissouriPhotograph: Peter Lemieux /AFPExhibits at the museum follow Disney's life from childhood to his struggles getting established as an artist and his later successesPhotograph: Peter Lemieux/AFPExhibits at the Walt Disney Family Museum include a model of how Disney envisioned DisneylandPhotograph: Eric Risberg/APVisitors stroll through the Big Screen and Beyond exhibit Photograph: Peter Lemieux/AFPOn 15 December 1966, Walt Disney died. This exhibit includes an audio recording announcing his death and the world's reactionPhotograph: Peter Lemieux/AFP
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