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An Apollonaut travel guide
A museum on the Main Post.
An introduction to the Presidio’s Main Post, where The Walt Disney Family Museum faces the Parade Ground.
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Read the Presidio from the Main Post
The museum is at 104 Montgomery Street in the Presidio, facing the Parade Ground. This is not the Montgomery Street in the Financial District: use the Presidio address and the zip code 94129.
A city guide can give context without turning a neighbourhood into a backdrop. Notice the row of brick barracks along Montgomery Street, and how the old post has found new uses.
Brick, timber and new rooms
The museum retrofitted and expanded three historic buildings on the Main Post, including Barracks 104, whose historic interior walls and ceilings the Army had removed long before.
Begin with a detail and ask how it was made and maintained. A photograph alone cannot tell you how an old barracks was strengthened, or the conditions in which people worked.
A museum chapter
The Walt Disney Family Museum shows one side of today’s Presidio: an Army post turned into a park, with its buildings given new public lives.
Look at the meeting of the two: a nineteenth-century barracks, and the story of a twentieth-century storyteller told inside it.
Make room for context
Pair this city reading with the museum’s history and the Journal. This is an introduction for visitors, not a claim that our team manages these places or represents their makers.
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