Oxford: city of stories
From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll, with illustrations by John Tenniel. Macmillan and Co, London, 1898.
The roll call is impressive – Lewis Carroll, Kenneth Grahame, J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, William Horwood, Mary Hoffman, Philip Pullman, all writers who have lived (or are living) in Oxford and all of whom have brought us great literary treasure.
So it’s fitting then that Oxford is to become the home to a new museum of story and storytelling, to open in 2014.
The virtual Story Museum is to become tangible, thanks to an anonymous benefactor and £2.5 million.
Pullman, along with Michael Morpurgo and Jacqueline Wilson, will become patron of the new Museum:
The Story Museum will be a wonderful gift from Oxford, where so many stories have begun, to the whole world,” Pullman said. “The whole atmosphere of the city is rich with fantasy. Indeed, the very idea of having a museum devoted to story is itself such a fantastical notion than no other city in the world could have given birth to it.
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