It's extraordinary, it's unfamiliar, it's New York Botanical Garden like never before! Head through the rabbit hole to discover how 'Wonderland: Curious Nature', an event hosted by the NYBG until October 27th, 2024, changes the Garden using the sights, sounds, and smells from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. You'll enter a botanical experience that piques your curiosity more and more as you go. Learn everything about this event and why you should run to see it before it's gone!
NYBG - Committed to Making Nature Thrive
Since its founding in 1891, the New York Botanical Garden has been a connecting point for people, plants, and the earth. In the center of the Bronx, New York City's greenest borough, they are deeply ingrained in the city's cultural fabric. The gardens have welcomed millions over more than 130 years, allowing them to experience the natural world's joy, beauty, and calm.
On 250 acres, NYBG hosts world-class exhibitions, interactive botanical experiences, art and music, and talks with some of the leading lights in horticulture, the humanities, and plant and fungal research. This year, running until October 27th, the 'Wonderland' themed exhibition allows visitors to see the Garden via Alice's humorous and inquisitive eyes as you hunt deeper into the expansion of surreal gardens, mind-bending contemporary artworks, and gallery shows full of deliciously odd marvels.
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Best of all, you’ll be able to choose your own adventure while being part of fantastical tea parties, imbue in thousands of colorful Victorian flowers, meet some of Wonderland’s fanciful and familiar characters, and go a little mad with us in this wild imagination!
This significant exhibition, which takes place in the spring, summer, and fall of 2024, honors a legend that is beloved worldwide. You're welcome to participate in the narrative, and it promises to tantalize your senses. Will you come to have tea? You can buy your tickets in advance before the event ends on NYBG's website.
More Details About 'Wonderland: Curious Nature'
Every day from 10 am to 6 pm, the exhibition grows curiosity among visitors with horticulture and art so surreal you’ll feel like you’ve stepped right into Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
Visitors can follow the White Rabbit and other residents of Wonderland through the Garden, where they will encounter scenes from the story that offer wild new perspectives, making people feel as if they are shrinking and growing along with Alice. If you attend the NYBG you will find larger-than-life mushrooms, an oversized chessboard, a shimmering looking-glass, and more.
Inside the Haupt Conservatory, thousands of flowers are shown in imaginative horticultural displays, highlighting the flourishing gardens. In the Library, visitors can observe Alice’s world deeper, learning about the novel’s historical context and modern interpretations, including the fascinating stories of mind-altering plants—subjects of Victorian-era study and ongoing scientific research today.
A prim topiary garden—a Victorian favorite—meets fantastically shaped mushroom sculptures by FoldHaus just outside the Conservatory, where after dark you’ll find these breathing, pulsing fungi lighting up the night with a rainbow of color. As you stroll through Wonderland, you’ll discover other art installations beckoning you to see the natural world from a weird and wonderful point of view.
Explore the Exhibition Before It Ends
Enter Wonderland at twilight and discover a unique atmosphere as well, where the mushrooms will be illuminated and you'll get a different glance at the NYBG. Additionally, join Thistle Dance at the Mad Hatter's dance party for an engaging celebration of rhythm and movement. Whatever you choose to do in Wonderland, one thing guaranteed by the New York Botanical Garden is fun. You'll have fun in every corner while being a part of planty and floral installations that'll make your jaw drop.
If you're ready to attend and want to get your tickets, remember to buy them through NYBG's website.
Photos by @nybg.
