Disney’s 100th anniversary took place this week and to celebrate ExCel London is hosting Disney100: The Exhibition up until January and for Disney fans it truly does become a ‘magical place’ to be this winter.
The Fever organised exhibition, which is just across the river from Greenwich, looks into Disney’s most iconic films whether that be Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Toy Story or new adaptations such as the 2023 The Little Mermaid.
The Disney archive also holds memorabilia from other owned franchises such as Pixar, Marvel, National Geographic and Star Wars, although it is more focused on classic Disney films.
A history of the company and specifically Walt Disney is quite literally brought to life in interactive ways for the audience to immerse themselves into the magic through fact boxes or letting it go at the music interactions and mini puzzles.
The exhibition starts with a show that projects Walt Disney at the forefront as if he was truly there and telling his story and how “it all started with a mouse.”
Audiences are then free to walk around the ten themed exhibition rooms to read stories of each time period, look at props and sketches from films, take photos or listen to the classic Disney hits.
Personally, my favourite part of the experience was the musical section where audiences could see music scores of their favourite films, listen along and hear their favourite songs in various other languages.
The mix of interactive options with historical stories (which most often than not can either be read or listened to) really does allow the exhibition to be targeted towards all ages, many kids and adults put on their best Disney attire and ears!
To finish the exhibition audiences have more photo opportunities, a chance to draw/colour and of course shop in their gift shop.
I would definitely encourage Disney fans, young and old, to go to this once in a century event as it truly is the next best thing to going to Disneyland itself and especially since the ticket prices are value for money.
For adults it costs £24, for children, NHS workers and students it costs £16.50 and for a family bundle it costs £18.25.
That being said due to high popularity it can feel a bit crowed at times and a queue almost forms around everything worth looking at which can make this 50-minute exhibition, according to Fever, one and a half hours or even two hours long, depending on how in-depth you choose to look at things.
Featured image credit from Disney100: The Exhibition: Libby Jennings.
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