Tonight BBC will air an episode of the documentary series Secrets of the Museum which will feature Alice Liddell.
The museum’s enormous stores contain many extraordinary collections, but one of its most prized is a treasure trove of early photographs. Curator Kate is interested in photographs taken by Lewis Carroll for a new exhibition about Alice in Wonderland. The Alice of the book was based on a real person, and now Kate has invited in her great granddaughter, Vanessa Tait, to help her chose photographs of her great-grandmother for the exhibition.
I will hopefully give my thoughts on this in the next few days.
Today booking has opened for the V and A Alice exhibition in London in June, which is an extension of ACMI's Wonderland exhibition (with more added)
