Walt Disney Family Museum opens in San Francisco

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 museum Photograph: Eric Risberg/AP

A 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 1955 Photograph: Peter Lemieux/AFP

A collection of Mickey Mouse watches and clocks Photograph: Eric Risberg /AP

Some of Walt Disney's early animation work Photograph: Peter Lemieux/AFP

The Walt Disney Family Museum is located in a refurbished building at the former Presidio US army base in San Francisco Photograph: Peter Lemieux/AFP

Walt Disney said he was inspired to draw Mickey Mouse after watching a rodent while working at Laugh-O-Gram studio in Kansas City, Missouri Photograph: Peter Lemieux /AFP

Exhibits at the museum follow Disney's life from childhood to his struggles getting established as an artist and his later successes Photograph: Peter Lemieux/AFP

Exhibits at the Walt Disney Family Museum include a model of how Disney envisioned Disneyland Photograph: Eric Risberg/AP

Visitors stroll through the Big Screen and Beyond exhibit Photograph: Peter Lemieux/AFP

On 15 December 1966, Walt Disney died. This exhibit includes an audio recording announcing his death and the world's reaction Photograph: Peter Lemieux/AFP