This event is exclusively for Wallace Collection Members, Benefactors, and Legators.

Date: 18 July 2022
Time: 18.30 - 19.30 BST; exhibition open from 17.30
Location: At the museum

Speaker: Dr Helen Jacobsen

Description: Join Helen Jacobsen, former Senior Curator at the Wallace Collection and co-curator of Inspiring Walt Disney, for our Annual Evening Talk. This year the talk will focus on our exhibition Inspiring Walt Disney: The Animation of French Decorative Arts.

Dr Jacobsen will be sharing her insights into the French eighteenth-century art on display in the exhibition, and revealing some of the surprising and enchanting inspirations they had on the twentieth-century hand-drawn animations of Walt Disney artists.

The exhibition will be open from 17.30, for ticket holders only, to have a private look before the beginning of the talk at 18.30. Please note - the Wallace Collection will close at 17.00 before ticket holders are re-admitted. 

Benefactors and Legators are invited to a reception after the talk.

Location: The Wallace Collection, Hertford House, Manchester Square, London, W1U 3BN

To book your free tickets, click here to book online, or get in touch via email.

If you are not yet a Member of The Wallace Collection and would like to join, click here to find out more. 

Photo Credit: Beauty and the Beast, 1991, Brian McEntee, Concept art, marker and photocopy on paper © Disney