Walt Disney's life to be chronicled in museum

June 18, 2009 Walt Disney is a global brand with film studios and theme parks bearing his name, but now his family is unveiling a museum to tell the story of the animation pioneer they say has been lost behind the trademark. The museum will trace Disney's life from his birth in Chicago and childhood in Missouri to his move to California in 1920s, where he married and his animation career took off with the creation of the Mickey Mouse character. Among the exhibits on display will be early animation drawings, film clips, scripts, cameras and many of Disney's numerous Academy Awards, including an honorary Oscar in 1939 for his first feature length animation film "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs."

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