Alice’s Wonderland at Scienceworks
Kid’s science museums are just about my favourite place to visit. Fortunately, my two boys are just as enthusiastic about science as I am so we head out to Melbourne’s Scienceworks Museum a couple of times a year. The team at Scienceworks has outdone themselves with the new exhibition Alice’s Wonderland by combining children’s literature and science together. We headed over to Melbourne’s western suburbs last week to check out Alice’s Wonderland and I also recruited one of Bub’s on the Move’s contributors, and science phobe Nicki Gill (my little sis) to get her opinion too. What I was wondering was whether the combination of art and science would win over even the most science adverse parent.
Alice’s Wonderland at Scienceworks
Alice’s Wonderland is a whimsical exhibition incorporating interactive science learning play with Lewis Carroll’s famous characters. Optics, motion, mathematics and other scientific principles are demonstrated beautifully. One of the wonders of Alice’s Wonderland is that the exhibition appeals to such a broad age range.
The exhibition commences with kid’s heading down the white rabbit hole into Wonderland and includes them setting a table for tea (learning sorting principles and fractions), investigating geography by digging to China and exploring balls in motion via the Queen of Hearts crazy croquet game.
Alice’s Wonderland at Scienceworks
Alice’s Wonderland is colourful, fun and stimulating. It is also included in Sciencework’s general entrance price (Adults are $12 children are free). We spent about forty five minutes at Alice’s Wonderland and still had time to explore the museum’s permanent exhibitions.
As for our science adverse reviewer. Her comments about Alice’s Wonderland:
“Alice’s Wonderland is a treat for young children and their parents. My three year old daughter was delighted with the hands on exhibits, clambering through the White Rabbit’s hole into Wonderland, setting the table for a tea party, and switching on a light to see the Cheshire Cat appear beside her own reflection in a mirror. Slightly older children will enjoy the thoughtful explanations of the science behind these wonders, and the brainteasers accompanying them. And this mummy, who is significantly older than the exhibit’s target demographic was enchanted by all the evocative imagery of Lewis Carroll’s classic, which was a staple of my own childhood.”
Alice’s Wonderland will be on display at Scienceworkds until November the 1st 2015. Scienceworks is open from 10am to 4.30 every day except Good Friday and Christmas Day. It is located at 2 Booker Street Spotswood, which is around 5 km from Melbourne’s CBD.
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Alice’s Wonderland at Scienceworks
Wonderful! They actually had this exhibit in St Louis Children’s museum many years ago. Great memories! Xo
Oh I’m glad kids all round the word have had the opportunity to experience this exhibition. I wondered where it cam from originally.