Alice: 150 Years of Wonderland

Directors: Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske
(1951, 75 minutes)

On a golden afternoon, young Alice follows the White Rabbit into a nearby rabbit hole. She tumbles into the burrow—and enters the merry, topsy-turvy world of Wonderland! Memorable songs and whimsical escapades highlight Alice’s journey, leading to a mad encounter with the Queen of Hearts and her army of playing cards! The short film Betty in Blunderland (Dave Fleischer, 1934, 7 minutes) precedes the screening. After the show, pop into the Morgan Café for Afternoon Tea!

Carolyn Vega, Assistant Curator, Literary and Historical Manuscripts

All gallery talks and tours are free with museum admission; no tickets or reservations necessary. They are one hour in length and meet at the Benefactors Wall across from the coat check area.

“What is the use of a book … without pictures or conversations?”

Follow Alice down the rabbit hole and put pictures into your own stories with Simon Levenson, National Arts Club instructor. First tour the exhibition Alice: 150 Years of Wonderland then use pen and watercolor to create a chapter from your own magical adventure. Bring a favorite story or one that you wrote yourself to illustrate. Appropriate for children age 6 and up.

Joyce Carol Oates

Experience a special Moth StorySLAM, open-mic storytelling competition, featuring stories inspired by the theme "Bizarre" and the exhibition Alice: 150 Years of Wonderland. Participants can put their name in the Moth “hat” for a chance to tell their own five minute story. The ten stories are then scored by teams of judges selected from the audience and the winning story will be selected to face off in the Moth’s GrandSLAM Championships. Sign up to tell a story, or just enjoy the show!

Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

In his latest book, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Magdalen College, University of Oxford, illuminates the friendship between Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) and Alice Liddell, the child for whom he invented the Alice stories. Douglas-Fairhurst examines how this relationship stirred Carroll’s imagination and influenced the creation of Wonderland. A book signing follows the talk.

In the News:
Go Ask Alice – The New Yorker

Explore the exhibition Alice: 150 Years of Wonderland then create a short picture book inspired by the character Alice encounters in Wonderland with Pat Cummings, author, illustrator, and faculty at the Parsons School of Design and Pratt Institute.