Follow Alice down the rabbit hole and discover a world filled with adventure, wonder and learning! Running through the end of August, visitors to Long Island Children’s Museum are invited to enjoy Alice’s Wonderland, an interactive exhibit based on Lewis Carroll's classic Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. With 1,500 square feet of hands-on experiences to explore, children -- and adults alike -- become as curious as Alice herself in a journey that makes the unknown more familiar, maybe even logical, and most certainly fun. Visitors are reminded of the story in each exhibit area through quotes from the original book and are delighted by encounters with some of the tale’s famous characters.
Visitors enter LICM’s Wonderland at the same place that Alice’s dream adventure begins: at the streamside knoll where she nodded off to sleep in her sister's lap. Curious Museum-goers may find themselves following the White Rabbit into the Underground by crawling through the rabbit hole and "falling" through the earth. And, as the story goes, they soon discover they are in the Hall of Doors, an atmosphere filled with optical illusions, scientific puzzles and surprises of many sizes!
As the exhibit experience unfolds, visitors test and experiment while at a Mad Tea Party, investigate geography in Digging to China, and understand animation at a Caucus Race, to name a few. The adventurous at heart may choose to challenge Alice and the Queen to a game of Crazy Croquet where balls in motion are surprisingly predictable.
Alice’s Wonderland is an innovative approach to helping children and adults build a shared foundation for science and math literacy. By taking perhaps the most memorable piece of literature in the English language and bringing the “heroine’s” bizarre experiences to life through a series of interactive exhibits, Alice’s Wonderland encourages children to delve into important educational concepts in uniquely accessible ways. According to Maureen Mangan, Director of Marketing for the LICM, “The story of Alice’s adventures is filled with opportunities to introduce science and math concepts to even very young children. Because so many parents grew up with the story, the exhibit encourages them to play and learn together with their children as they have conversations about Alice’s experiences in Wonderland.”
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