The Memory Gallery
“But, first, remember, remember, remember the signs. Say them to yourself when you wake in the morning and when you lie down at night, and when you wake in the middle of the night. And whatever strange things may happen to you, let nothing turn your mind from following the signs. And secondly, I give you a warning. Here on the mountain I have spoken to you clearly: I will not often do so down in Narnia. Here on the mountain, the air is clear and your mind is clear; as you drop down into Narnia, the air will thicken. Take great care that it does not confuse your mind. And the signs which you have learned here will not look at all as you expect them to look, when you meet them there. That is why it is so important to know them by heart and pay no attention to appearances. Remember the signs and believe the signs. Nothing else matters.” — C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair
Step into our Memory Gallery to enjoy moving choir performances and inspiring oratory speeches. Renowned author and Humanities professor Dr. Louie Markos will also be featured, engaging his audience as to the history of Lewis and memory.
The Virtue Gallery
“There is a difference between doing some particular just or temperate action and being a just or temperate man. Someone who is not a good tennis player may now and then make a good shot. What you mean by a good player is a man whose eye and muscles and nerves have been so trained by making innumerable good shots that they can now be relied on. They have a certain tone or quality which is there even when he is not playing, just as a mathematician’s mind has a certain habit and outlook which is there even when he is not doing mathematics. In the same way a man who perseveres in doing just actions gets in the end a certain quality of character. Now it is that quality rather than the particular actions which we mean when we talk of a ‘virtue’.” — C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
Spend time in our Virtue Gallery studying poems on the four cardinal virtues. Keep strolling onward through the exhibit to immerse yourself in photography inspired by the three theological virtues.
The Imagination Gallery
“I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books. As a result you are already too old for fairy tales, and by the time it is printed and bound you will be older still. But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. You can then take it down from some upper shelf, dust it, and tell me what you think of it. I shall probably be too deaf to hear, and too old to understand a word you say, but I shall still be your affectionate Godfather, C. S. Lewis.” ― C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
“This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there.” — C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
“Reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.” ― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
As you peruse our Imagination Gallery, you will see traces of Lewis’s fingerprints on each work of art: whimsical fairy tales framed in gold, enchanted Narnian scenes brought to three-dimensional life, ordinary objects made extraordinary by means of imagination.