The Exhibition to Immerse Friends Worldwide within the Magic of Disney

The Exhibition, which celebrates Disney 100 Years of Surprise, launches a World Tour at Philadelphia’s Franklin Institute on February 18, 2023, with subsequent stops introduced, together with Chicago, IL, Kansas Metropolis, MO, and Munich, Germany

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — At this time at D23 Expo: The Final Disney Fan Occasion in Anaheim, CA, thrilling new particulars and stops have been introduced for the upcoming world premiere of Disney100: The Exhibition. Created for the 100-year celebration of The Walt Disney Firm, the exhibition will immerse visitors within the beloved tales which have been dazzling visitors since 1923, when Walt Disney set his firm on a path that might revolutionize the leisure business. The world premiere of the exhibit opens on February 18, 2023, at The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, PA, with Chicago, IL, and Kansas Metropolis, MO, set as the subsequent two stops on the North American tour. The worldwide unit of the exhibit will open on April 18, 2023, in Munich, Germany, with extra cities to be introduced within the coming months.

The official exhibition poster and trailer have been additionally revealed immediately.

Disney100: The Exhibition Poster
Disney100: The Exhibition Trailer 

“As we put together to kick off Disney 100 Years of Surprise, we’re extremely excited to deliver this unbelievable exhibition to life,” mentioned Becky Cline, director, Walt Disney Archives. “We will not watch for visitors to expertise their favourite Disney tales, characters, and points of interest in new and immersive methods as we have a good time all of the great worlds of Disney.”

President and CEO of The Franklin Institute Larry Dubinski added, “The Franklin Institute is thrilled to host Disney100: The Exhibition, the primary main occasion to mark the worldwide celebration of Disney’s 100 years, permitting followers all through the Philadelphia area and past the very first alternative to see these crown jewels come to life in fantastically crafted galleries reflecting the inventive empire synonymous with imaginative storytelling, innovation, discovery, and marvel.”

Over the previous 100 years, Disney has introduced its iconic tales and characters to life in new and progressive methods, changing into a part of the worldwide tradition and creating generations of recollections for billions. Disney100: The Exhibition invitations visitors to step into their favourite tales utilizing innovation and immersive expertise all through ten galleries within the 15,000-square-foot exhibit.

The Walt Disney Archives opens its vault of treasures, showcasing lots of of extraordinary objects, together with a lot of Disney’s “Crown Jewels” – greater than 250 not often seen unique artworks and artifacts, costumes and props, and different memorabilia. Disney has curated particular behind-the-scenes glimpses into the creation of the most well-liked characters, movies, reveals, and points of interest – from Disneyland to Walt Disney World® Resort and past. The ten magnificent and imaginatively themed galleries, with shifting tales, distinctive interactive installations, and thrilling background data, will take guests on a journey by way of 100 years of The Walt Disney Firm, celebrating the classics from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to Unusual World, in addition to the most recent members of the Disney household – Pixar, Star Wars, Marvel, and Nationwide Geographic.

Disney100: The Exhibition Info:
-Ten massive, themed galleries with quite a few cutting-edge interactive installations masking 15,000 sq. ft
–February 18, 2023: World Premiere at The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, launching the U.S. tour
–April 18, 2023: European Premiere in Munich
-Created and curated by the Walt Disney Archives and Semmel Exhibitions

The Franklin Institute is proud to current and play host to the world premiere of Disney100: The Exhibition within the Nicholas and Athena Karabots Pavilion and the Mandell Heart. PECO, the premier company accomplice of The Franklin Institute, is the Native Presenting Sponsor of the exhibition.

About The Franklin Institute
Positioned within the coronary heart of Philadelphia, The Franklin Institute is a famend and progressive chief in science and expertise studying and a dynamic heart of exercise. As Pennsylvania’s most visited museum, it’s devoted to making a ardour for studying about science by providing entry to hands-on science training.  For extra data, go to www.fi.edu.

Concerning the Walt Disney Archives
For greater than 50 years, the Walt Disney Archives has fastidiously safeguarded essentially the most treasured objects from The Walt Disney Firm’s historical past, together with unique scripts, film props and costumes, Walt Disney’s correspondence and script notes, theme park artifacts, merchandise, thousands and thousands of archival images, and lots of of Walt’s private results. Based by Disney Legend Dave Smith in 1970, the Walt Disney Archives is an important useful resource for each a part of Disney, in addition to an essential analysis heart for Disney students, researchers, and writers. The Archives additionally shares its numerous items with Disney followers in all places by way of its exhibitions and shut affiliation with D23: The Official Disney Fan Membership.

For the Walt Disney Archives:
Jeffrey R. Epstein
The Walt Disney Firm
[email protected] 

About Semmel Exhibitions
Semmel Exhibitions creates exhibitions, which journey worldwide, and hosts worldwide exhibitions in Germany, Austria, and German-speaking Switzerland. Semmel Exhibitions is a division of Semmel Concert events Leisure, the massive German reside leisure producer. Since Semmel Exhibitions began touring its exhibitions TUTANKHAMUN – HIS TOMB AND HIS TREASURES; THE DISCOVERY OF KING TUT; and most lately MARVEL: UNIVERSE OF SUPER HEROES and SPIDER-MAN: BEYOND AMAZING – THE EXHIBITION, they’ve reached an viewers of greater than seven million folks worldwide, and constructed a powerful worldwide community inside museums, science facilities, cultural venues and the inventive industries. Extra data at semmel-exhibitions.com.

Media Contact:
Stefanie Santo
The Franklin Institute
[email protected] 215.448.1152

SOURCE The Franklin Institute