Just days before the pandemic forced the closures of museums and other businesses nationwide, the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana, California opened their “Inside the Walt Disney Archives” Exhibit. The traveling exhibit, which debuted at the D23 Expo in Japan in 2018, features rare costumes, props, artwork, and more from the Walt Disney Archives.
The exhibit was able to reopen briefly in September when Orange County reached the red reopening tier, but was since forced to re-close. Due to the prolonged closures, the exhibit originally extended its end date through the end of February.
Now, the Bowers Museum has announced that the “Inside the Walt Disney Archives” Exhibit will be extended once again, this time through April 25th, 2021!
The Bowers Museum has yet to announce a reopening date, because at this time indoor museums must stay closed as Orange County remains in the most restrictive purple tier. Once the county reaches the red tier, indoor museums may reopen at 25% capacity.
We’ll keep a close watch on California’s tiered reopening system and will fill you in once we know more about the reopening of indoor museums in Orange County!
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Have you been able to visit the Walt Disney Archives Exhibit at the Bowers Museum? Let us know in the comments!
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I wish I could reach the archive exhibit producers. I was actually thrilled yet very disapointed in the way this exhibti was presented. it would have been more intersting to have all the reading done as an audio presentation. Numbers of the phone to listen to each section would have been helpful (like in their Bowers museum) disiappointed so much info was missing…like how long was the comic strip produced? How did Disney lost right to Oswald, the Lucky rabbit? Why was pretty woman dress on dsiplay(learned from security that Touchstone is the adult Disney producer!) need more benches for visitors to sit on. Would have been great to have shot video clips behind the costumes from the each movie. the video of each of the prop books would have been great, and if sleeping beauty prop book could have been open to a page by standing it up would have been great to see. I loved the background music throughout the exhibit. Wilson was great (but again a loop of a video would have been an improvement) The snow white travel case would be such a great item to replicate and sell as a souvenir. I would love to have one. The poster of Batman of 20th cnetury fox I could not figure out WHY it was there. What are attraction posters? Barn Dance video to explain its inclusion would be helpful. video of D23 from past presentations would be great. Being a mousketeers fan, I would have loved to see a tv clip of Annette Funicello in the red Christmas dress. Thanks for letting me rant.