Alice in Wonderland Interactive Exhibition

The Saltykov-Chertkov Mansion daily hosts visitors to the exhibition organized in honor of the 150th anniversary of Alice in Wonderland. The place was not chosen by chance, there is an assumption that Lewis Carroll himself, during his visit to Russia, visited the library, which was located here at the end of the 19th century.

For the duration of the exhibition, this mansion has turned into a real illusory world: kinetic bowls instead of a chandelier that emit magical light, a giant Balloon and Europe's largest kaleidoscope.

In the Gothic hall of the mansion in multimedia format all the canonical illustrations for "Alice" by John Tenniel (1864), stained glass installations decorating the chapel in the village of Daresbury (the place where the author was born) are presented. In the "dream room" you can see the first film adaptation of the fairy tale, which was released in 1903.

Neither children nor adults will be bored here. Younger guests will be able to have fun on their own: visit inside the mirror capsule and look into the giant kaleidoscope. Parents at this time will be able to drink tea with cupcakes or visit the book market, where almost all editions of Alisa are collected.

Every hour the exhibition hosts interactive tours. In addition, at 16:00 and 20:00 guests will be able to take part in the quests "Alice in the Land of Mysteries" or "Ghost Ball in Victorian England", and on weekends - in the quest "How many sweets Jack stole" (duration - 1 hour ; the cost of the quest is included in the price of the entrance ticket).

The exhibition dedicated to the anniversary of Lewis Carroll's famous book "Alice in Wonderland" will open on May 29 at the Saltykov-Chertkov mansion. The place for the exhibition was not chosen by chance. Famous writer, mathematician, logician, philosopher, deacon and photographer Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) spent his entire life without leaving his native England. However, one country for which he made an exception and which he loved very much was Russia. In 1867, Lewis Carroll made his first and only trip abroad - to Russia. He visited Moscow, St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod and Sergiev Posad. He arrived in our country on a mission to support cooperation between the Anglican and Orthodox Churches. In Moscow, he visited the famous library in the Chertkov mansion on Myasnitskaya. A century and a half later, it is here that an exhibition dedicated to his "Alice" opens.

The Moscow exhibition is made according to the principle "episode reveals", and each visitor will be able to look at the story told by Carroll in more volume. In addition to illustrations from different years, the exhibition will present for the first time beautiful stained-glass windows by the English artist Geoffrey Webba decorating the chapel in Daresbury, Cheshire, because the famous writer was born in the rectory there.

Fantasy worlds for children and adults will come to life on 1500 square meters of an old manor. Already from the first steps, visitors will have the feeling that they are not just in the house, but in the real "wonderful mansion" . Instead of a chandelier, for example, two rotating kinetic bowls will be arranged, and a library "hang" in the air. There will also be a seven-meter mirror through which Alice entered another world, an illusion "disappearing garden", the largest kaleidoscope in Europe, a mirror prism inside which you can even visit and find out how the kaleidoscope works, the throne room of the Red and White Queen, the dream room, the Duchess's kitchen, Alice's lawn, the Barmoglot's skeleton and, of course, the White Rabbit's house. All those who come will be able to take a picture inside the book, as well as find out how the old camera was arranged, because Lewis Carroll He was also a great photographer and mathematician. In addition, at the exhibition, you can relax on the pillows in the cinema and see the restored fragments of silent films. "Alice in Wonderland", filmed in the UK by director Cecil M. Hepworth in 1903, which will be shown accompanied by a robot pianist. In the Gothic hall, visitors will see for the first time multi-illusion "100 stories" according to illustrations for Alice in Wonderland by Sir John Tenniel which are now recognized as canonical.

A separate creative space will be built for children, where they can have fun on their own: live in Humpty Dumpty's house, build their own houses and castles, play the longest railway, watch cartoons in a children's cinema, draw on everything, paint white rose bushes, and also learn how to play not only croquet, but also the old English games of shuffleboard and corn hall, pass obstacles in the labyrinth of lines. And adults at this time will be able to sit in a magical cafe with a cup of coffee with a real English cupcake, choose a book in the book market and visit a retro studio in the Mauritanian room, where a blue caterpillar solemnly sits on a mushroom.

The mansion on Myasnitskaya, one of the most beautiful in Moscow, has its own interesting history. In this former estate of the Volynskys, Dolgoruky and Saltykovs, through the efforts of one of the owners of the house - the Moscow governor, Colonel A.D. Chertkov - in the 19th century a huge private library was created, which in 1831 had more than 20 thousand books. She attracted prominent people of her time: A.S. Pushkin, V.A. Zhukovsky, N.V. Gogol. Leo Tolstoy used the books of this library while working on the novel War and Peace. In 1871, the Moscow City Duma took the library into the ownership of the city, retaining the name of the City Chertkovskaya Library (the first free library in Russia) forever. The entire collection of books was transferred to the library of the Rumyantsev Museum, later becoming the basis of the Historical Library.

Despite the fact that after the revolution the estate was plundered, the decor was practically not damaged. The organizers of the exhibition tried to organically fit the exposition solutions into the interiors of the mansion, without hiding the details from the eyes of visitors: M. Vrubel's fireplace, F. Schechtel's staircase, oak library, Moorish room, Gothic living room - everything will appear before visitors in its original beauty. Masterpieces of classic modern, covered with the patina of time, will be played with special effects of the latest digital technologies and unusual lighting solutions.

The exhibition will also feature lectures on the work of Lewis Carroll and English literature of the 19th century by leading British literary scholars.

D.7 Last year, an exhibition was opened to mark the 150th anniversary of the publication of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. The exhibition turned out to be interesting. Doubly interesting. Firstly, the format and content of the exhibition itself is interesting, and secondly, the mansion itself, in which this exhibition takes place, is also interesting. Prior to this, ordinary visitors were not allowed here, but now you are welcome. The house is interesting because such characters as Shekhtel and Vrubel had a hand in it. We do not have many mansions available for visiting, unfortunately. Therefore, any such opportunity is worth its weight in gold. Let's see how Wonderland coexists with wonders of architecture.
1. There is a perfectly reasonable explanation for the fact that the general public is not allowed into the estates that have been preserved. Half of them are given over to embassies, the other part is engaged in government organizations. And here is the exhibition. Not the entire mansion is available for visiting, unfortunately. But it may be for the time being. This is what it looks like from the street. You must have passed by this beautiful house more than once.

2. Let's start from the first floor. What gorgeous windows. Now look at the windows you have at home or in the office. Yes, progress has completely killed individuality.

3. Warm, tube chandelier light. Warm wooden ceiling.

4. The carved wooden decor here is very beautiful. There is a wardrobe here. We hand over clothes and move on.

5. Of course, the mansion needs restoration, but all sorts of imperfections in the interior are completely organic in the context of a wonderland. That's how you / we know how it is there in a wonderful country.

6. Room for a crazy tea party. We were pleased with the scenery in the style of the Hedgehog in the fog in the background. Here, yes, you can take pictures in all this surroundings.

7. And here is a chess road that goes somewhere into the distance. Pay attention to the coolest metal columns holding the ceiling.

8. Periodically here and there quotes.

9. And here you can have a bite to eat. Gorgeous stucco on the ceiling and a cool, already modern chandelier. And what walls.

10. Another room is a shop. Cool interior.

11. Gorgeous stucco, look how many details. Quite by chance, on the left is a white rabbit, as if the same one from Alice in Wonderland.

12. Floor lamp leg.

13. A large cup for a large tea party.

14. Here is another gorgeous chandelier. To be honest, such modern lamps in such a chic interior look ... bewitching. I really liked it.

15. Suddenly the Cheshire cat, wherever you go, he always looks at you.

16. But for lovers of psychedelics. Yes, also a Cheshire cat.

17. No wonder the exhibition dedicated to the most famous work of Lewis Carroll takes place here. The organizers of the exhibition claim that the writer himself, when he visited Moscow, visited this mansion. And here he is, sitting in a chair.

18. Quote book.

19. Climbing the stairs we are greeted by the smile of the Cheshire cat.

20. Multi-colored backlighting adds fabulousness.

21. A large luminous balloon, also known as a chandelier.

22. And what a chic stucco molding on the ceiling, what a beauty.

23. There is also a big kaleidoscope. Just huge.

24. With such spinning discs of multi-colored glass.

25. Upstairs, on the ceiling in the room with a kaleidoscope, the corresponding chandelier.

26. An interesting map of the world according to the version, apparently, of the characters of Wonderland.

27. More details.

28. Here is a lovely children's room with wood trim and a trampoline. Even though the sign says it's not a trampoline. In general, this is an air library.

29. Around quotes.

30. Very beautiful vintage wheelchairs. Handmade... antiques.

31. Above is a lot of everything, including garlands of playing cards. All this, if you look from below, resembles a playpen for children with hanging rattles.

32. Since everything is miraculous here, there are also such optical things.

33. Interestingly, well-known characters were also involved in illustrations for books about Alice. Of course, Salvador Dali could not pass by such psychedelics.

34. Such is all such.

35. Another shelf with various rare and interesting editions of the famous work.

36. "Sonya in the diva realm" is just fire! =)

37. And also very interesting, almost living characters of the story. Red Queen.

38. Alice herself, and a rabbit.

39. There is even a house of a white rabbit. A small one, the size of a dog's kennel.

40. And more characters. Here is from ceramics.

41. And here are the puppet ones.

42. Suddenly there is also a doll of a real queen. British. What a sweet old lady.

43. Let's move on. We get into the psychedelic throne room. Here, according to the throne room - the throne. For more psychedelic - mushrooms. There is a very cool fireplace with a mirror. And on the right is the skeleton of a barmaglot, of course.

44. The author of the fireplace is Mikhail Vrubel. 1897 What a beauty.

45. By the way, Vrubel was in great demand. He worked in many mansions, his "Princess Dream" in the form of a ceramic panel adorns the facade of the Metropol Hotel. He worked in many private mansions. There is a fireplace here.

46. ​​And of course, not only the fireplace, but also the stucco molding is amazing. It's not surprising - the throne room is the same.

47. Windows. If you open the doors, you can go out to the balcony and see the townspeople always hurrying along Myasnitskaya.

48. This is how it should look like in the evening.

49. We go to the next room.

50. Here I don’t even know what it is. It's called "Dream Room"

51. Dream about this.

52. Again, pay attention to the decoration of the halls.

53. Next is Alice's Children's Lawn.

54. On some windows there are pseudo-stained-glass windows.

55. But where the stained-glass windows are cooler, it's in the Gothic hall.

56. This is perhaps the coolest hall of the mansion. Look at this beauty. Real, serious neo-Gothic.

57. And here are pictures with drawings of stained-glass windows of the church in the city of Daresbury, which appeared there in honor of the centenary of L. Carroll. Stained glass by Jeffrey Webb.

58. Imagine these stained-glass windows adorn the windows.... of a functioning church.

59. New Year's mood - Christmas trees.

60. On the big screen they play pictures for the first edition with illustrations of "Alice in Wonderland" by author John Tunniel. You can sit on chic sofas and join the history. Very gothic.

The exhibition is extraordinary. The place chosen for the exhibition is very interesting. As the authors of the exhibition write - "Wonderful Mansion". It seems to me that it was possible to convey the atmosphere of the absurdly fabulous atmosphere of L. Carroll's main book. A certain aristocracy and stiffness is added by the interior of the mansion. The exhibition will run until March. For all lovers of something unusual, as well as those who wish to visit the Saltykov-Chertkov mansion, which beckons inside with its facades overlooking Myasnitskaya, I recommend visiting.

The new exhibition space will appear in the very center of St. Petersburg - in the famous house of the clergy of the Kazan Cathedral, now known as the Atrium. The exhibition "Alice in Wonderland" will open here.

Hooray! Holidays started! On this occasion, every day from March 25 to April 2, for you and your children interactive tours of the Wonderful exhibition "Alice in Wonderland" on Nevsky, 25, at 14.00 and 16.00 are the heroes of the fairy tale - the Mad Hatter and the Queen! We dance a jig-jig, divide bread into a knife, try on hats, study Alice's flight down the rabbit hole, defeat the Jabberwock, build the Humpty Dumpty fortress, penetrate the mirror pipe and keyhole, look into a giant kaleidoscope, learn the wisdom of the Duchess and why the White Rabbit is everything time is late.

The exhibition is open until April 2! Do not miss the chance to visit Wonderland and open the world of this amazing fairy tale to your child!

The wonderful exhibition "Alice in Wonderland" is dedicated to the legendary fairy tale written by Lewis Carroll. It was published in 1865 and became the second most printed book in the world after the Bible. This is the only fairy tale on the planet translated into 129 languages. Alisomania has taken over the world. The famous writer, mathematician, logician, philosopher, deacon and photographer Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) did not leave his native England all his life. However, one country for which he made an exception and dreamed of visiting is Russia. In 1867, Lewis Carroll made his first and only trip abroad - to Russia. He visited Moscow, St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod and Sergiev Posad. He arrived in our country on a mission to support cooperation between the Anglican and Orthodox Churches.

An unusual exhibition for the whole family "Alice in Wonderland" was first presented in Moscow in the spring of 2015 in the Saltykov-Chertkov Mansion. More than 150,000 adults and children visited the museum of a new format - the Wonderful Mansion, and before this project, the mansion had never been used as a stationary exhibition site. The organizers spent several months trying to find a suitable building in St. Petersburg - with history, but which has never hosted exhibitions, especially such unusual ones. As a result, the second floor of the House of Clergymen of the Kazan Cathedral will become a “wonderful St. Petersburg mansion” – all the more suitable, because Lewis Carroll was a clergyman.

Fantasy worlds for children and adults will come to life on 600 square meters of the House. The exhibits of the exhibition will first bring visitors back to the origins: to the personality of the author himself and his heroine, the real-life girl Alice Liddell, and then they will take them to the world of the oddities of the Victorian era and their reflection in a fairy tale. Visitors will be able to get acquainted with the first illustrations for "Alice" by John Tenniel: in 1865, they became canonical and brought the fairy tale a huge success. The images of Carroll's characters inspired Walt Disney to create the first animated film. In order for all those who come to feel like a part of this story, the exhibition has created a photo zone "The Evolution of Disney", and all Tenniel's illustrations are presented in the video show format. Carroll's passion optical illusions demonstrated through art objects: a giant kaleidoscope, a kinetic chandelier, an anamorphoscope, an air geostat, a vanishing garden. Children will be curious to visit the mirror capsule and see how the Cheshire Cat disappears and reappears. Everyone is also waiting for a meeting with an unusual high-tech White Rabbit (a telepresence robot R-Bot). The main characters of the tale are dedicated to installations based on stained-glass windows by the English artist Jeffrey Webb, which since 1935 have been decorating the Church of All Saints in Daresbury, Cheshire, where the famous writer was born in the rectory. In the "Dream Room" you can see the first silent movie based on "Alice", filmed in 1903 by American director Cecil Heppworth, and also become a participant in a crazy tea party.

Maria Milyutina, author of the idea and curator of the exhibition: “I am convinced that an exhibition on a genuine literary basis, above all, should not be boring. We deliberately choose strange spaces for our exhibitions. Indeed, on such projects, the most important thing is the special spirit and atmosphere of the book. And in this case, "Alice in Wonderland" perfectly suited the second floor of the St. Petersburg "Atrium". I think our visitors will discover this legendary tale again. In our space, everything involves the game, and visitors feel comfortable, like at home.”

General producer of the exhibition Alla Klyuchnikova: “Our Moscow experience has shown that such an unusual format has a great future. Now you will not surprise anyone with attractions. Children and parents need intellectual holidays and unusual presentation of information.”

Excursions and quests are extremely popular at the exhibition. Visiting the exhibition with a guided tour allows you to learn the history of the creation of a fairy tale and take a fresh look at it. Quests are a special entertainment for connoisseurs of leisure in the style of intellectual holidays, which has become extremely popular these days. And on New Year's holidays all children at the exhibition will be waiting
"The Hatter's Show" is a magical soap illusion performed by the brilliant circus artist of the original genre Maxim Zayets. Air, water, smoke, fire will reveal the secrets of Wonderland and the imaginary world.

General Producer - Alla Klyuchnikova
The author of the idea and curator of the exhibition is Maria Milyutina
Realization of the idea: Wonderland Production

The date: December 27, 2016 - April 2, 2017, from 11.00 - 21.00
Address: Exhibition space "Atrium" (Nevsky prospect, 25)

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After a difficult week at work, I really wanted some kind of holiday. The idea of ​​holding a Friday evening was suggested, as usual, by a favorite site, this time by Andrew - her review of the exhibition dedicated to the 150th anniversary of Alice in Wonderland suggested where in Moscow you can meet a fairy tale.
My daughter and I planned as follows: we arrive at 19:00 to catch the last excursion, walk a little on our own, and at 20:00 we go to the quest.

In fact, the following happened: at 18:50, when we entered the Saltykov-Chertkov mansion, the tour had already begun. Apparently, this was due to the fact that there were already 5-6 people and no one else was expected, the exhibition is not popular. My daughter and I practically did not suffer - we caught up with the guide on the stairs literally 2 minutes after the start, but it would be right for the organizers to start the excursions on time or inform on the website about a possible shift in the event.

The tour, a wonderful, wonderful girl, spoke in a very entertaining and accessible way about the author, about the history of the creation of the book and illustrations for it, about where such unusual characters came from, and how the fate of the already adult Alice developed. Special thanks to the guide for asking her daughter to find her forgotten book "Alice in Wonderland" in order to refresh her memory and "look" in a new way, taking into account the information received.
It is a pity that the entire presentation of information takes 20-25 minutes, my daughter and I were ready to listen further.

Another 20 minutes were spent on an independent examination of the exposition, and by 19:30 we still had half an hour of time left before the quest, which we had to do with something. We looked into a local cafe, a very nice place - cozy, tasty, reasonable prices, besides, it turned out that future participants of the game gather in the cafe.
By 20:00, there were no people who wanted to participate in the quest except my daughter and me. A kind young man explained the rules of the game to us and gave us a task.

Now, dear organizers, excuse me, I will criticize you:

1. The game at 20:00 is positioned as an adult game. With all responsibility I declare that adults without children have nothing to do on it. Apparently, the compilers assumed that only people aged 20 and older could solve logical problems. The young man checking the answers was surprised by our correct answers, according to him, few people cope with these tasks.
In fact, the level of tasks is a maximum of class 5, if a child at this age does not have logic, then it will not appear further, and complex calculations and conclusions were not required at all.

2. In the first task, the idea is good - there is a question, there are 3 possible answers to it, the correct answer will lead to the next question, the wrong one will lead to a dead end. If the game is for adults, why was it necessary to number the questions? Even an 8-year-old child understands that if, answering question No. 4, he came to the next question No. 6, then this is wrong, and you need to look for No. 5. And it would also be nice (especially for children) to provide for the possibility of recording the correct answers in the task sheet, because the questions were interesting, and I would like the child to have information.

3. It is completely incomprehensible to whom the question about the content of the book was intended. It is unlikely that any of the adults (unless, of course, they have recently read books to their child) will be able to answer it. Or was it a hint at a local store, where there are, among other things, books where you can find what you are looking for, and at the same time buy something? In my opinion, it would be much more logical to ask a question about the content of the exposition.

In general, the quest did not impress us much, although my daughter and I got some pleasure from the game. It was nice to get a nice certificate (it is issued to all teams, regardless of the result).

Summing up the trip to the exhibition, my daughter and I decided:
- it was definitely worth visiting the event (although I agree with the previous reviewers - the prices are too high);
- it would be good to read a book before the visit (daughter reads after the visit, but awakened interest is already wonderful);
- the excursion is obligatory - this is the most vivid impression of what he saw and heard, just in case you should come early;
- the quest is not particularly interesting, but you can go through it once, since the cost of the game is already included in the entrance fee;
- the exhibition is intended for children from 7-8 years old who are familiar with the work of Lewis Carroll.