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Unlocking The Magic: Talking all things Disney Parks, Universal and Cruising

512: Unlocking The Walt Disney Family Museum

Unlocking The Magic: Talking all things Disney Parks, Universal and Cruising

Konstantina Irving

Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Welcome back to Unlocking the Magic! Today we’re stepping away from the parks and heading to a place that’s just as magical in a quieter, more personal way. We’re talking about the Walt Disney Family Museum, a hidden gem that every true Disney fan needs to experience at least once.

In this episode, we are going on an inspiring journey through the museum,.  a place that goes far beyond memorabilia and instead unlocking the man behind the magic.

This museum isn’t just a timeline of Walt’s life it’s his daughter Diane’s love letter to her father. It’s designed to show us the person Walt was before the suits and the success. And it does exactly that.

The museum walks you through Walt’s life in a way that feels almost like flipping through a family scrapbook from his childhood  to his days as a struggling animator, to the moment Mickey Mouse changed everything.  It’s filled with the voice of Walt himself, rare family photos, hand-drawn sketches, and heartfelt letters that give you an unfiltered view into who he really was: a dreamer, a doer, and someone who never stopped pushing boundaries.


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0:00.0

Please stand clear of the doors.

0:02.7

For favor, maintain

0:03.7

to alijado de las puyntas.

0:18.6

Hey, everybody.

0:20.2

Welcome to Unlocking the Magic.

0:23.4

You're listening to episode number 512, getting up there in episode numbers.

0:30.0

And today I'm really excited because today we are unlocking the Walt Disney Family Museum.

0:36.6

Finally made it.

0:37.4

Finally made it. It was like a dream come true.

0:40.1

I think we have been talking about visiting this museum since like 2015,

0:45.0

right when we were starting the podcast.

0:47.6

I know we've always written of bucket list items,

0:50.4

and this was high up there,

0:52.4

just a little far for us to travel all the west coast, but we

0:56.9

were so excited. First of all, seeing San Francisco, which is where the Walt Disney Family

1:01.8

Museum is located, was something also part of our bucket list. So just being able to see the city

1:06.6

and visit and just be around. I mean, we got to go check out the full house house,

1:12.6

my childhood dream,

1:14.8

just to kind of revisit that,

1:17.2

which we could talk about the details of that later.

1:19.8

Overrated.

1:21.3

I really liked it,

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