Discover ?Alice? at Creative Discovery Museum exhibit

Follow Alice down the rabbit hole and discover a world filled with adventure, wonder and learning! Visitors to Creative Discovery Museum are invited to enjoy Alice?s Wonderland, an interactive exhibit based on Lewis Carroll’s classic ?Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland? now through Sept. 4. 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.

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.

In the exhibit, you can create a Mad Tea Party, manipulate time with a Crazy Clock, explore shadows in a Pool of Tears, and understand animation at a Caucus Race.

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. Curious Museum-goers may find themselves following the White Rabbit into the Underground by crawling through the rabbit hole and “falling” through the earth.

Once there, you can play with the meanings of words and explore the ‘antipodes’ with a specially-outfitted globe. And, as the story goes, you will discover you are in the Hall of Doors, an atmosphere filled with special illusions and surprises!

In the 12 years since it opened, the 43,000 square foot Creative Discovery Museum has become recognized as one of the top children?s museums in the nation by ?Child Magazine.? Attendance averages over 270,000 visitors per year.

Creative Discovery Museum is open Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. – 5 p.m; Sunday from noon – 5 p.m. Summer hours in July include: Every day from 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. Tickets are $8.95 for children and adults. The museum is located in downtown Chattanooga at 321 Chestnut Street. For more information, call 423-756- 2738, or visit www.cdmfu.org.