![]() The roof and top 2 levels lift off for easy viewing of the fully furnished bedroom and kitchen, plus a workshop that is packed with items you’d have seen in a real medieval blacksmith’s smithy. The architectural details of a 3-level building from the Middle Ages are lovingly recreated in LEGO style. Take a break from modern life and build this magnificent LEGO® Ideas Medieval Blacksmith (21325) display model. Push the bellows to make the furnace glow and explore the garden with its gnarly apple tree, archery target and well, plus a horse and cart. Discover lots of authentic details and unique elements inside the 3-level building, from the medieval-style kitchen and bedroom to the fully equipped workshop. Step back in time with this impressive LEGO® model of a medieval blacksmith’s workplace and home. Tickets cost $10 for adults, $7 for youth, students and seniors or free for museum members.Įxpect timed entry to control crowd sizes.Build a wonderfully detailed LEGO® Ideas model of a fully equipped medieval blacksmith’s workshop, including a glowing forge and 4 minifigures. landscape with LEGO models … one of the prompts is to build a new monument for D.C., one is to build a bridge … we also have a ‘graffiti wall’ where you can use LEGOs as pixelated canvas images.” “We have large map tables that are a map of D.C., so we can inspire some budding engineers and architects to add to the D.C. ![]() “There’s a room at the end of this gallery where you can try your hand at building some structures of your own,” Bristol said. I did take a break when I was 18 to 22, but otherwise the last 40-odd years LEGO has always been a part of my life.”Īfter you’ve seen Elsmore’s creations, you can design your own LEGO buildings with interactive activities. Every Christmas, every birthday, all I ever asked for in the first 18 years or so was LEGOs. “For me, it was always LEGOs, I never had the DUPLO bricks, the larger ones. ![]() “I don’t remember my first LEGO bricks, I have asked my parents, they don’t remember either, they just remember that there were always LEGO bricks around,” Elsmore said. “We loaded it back in Edinburgh where we’re based, shipped them over, then I’ve been here the last week helping the museum get set up and ready for our visitors … I will admit that we don’t count every single brick, but we’re definitely over a quarter million bricks in the exhibit.”īorn in the UK, Elsmore has been obsessed with LEGOs ever since he can remember. “They really did come in a shipping container,” Elsmore said. Pancras Station, measuring 12-feet-long and 6-feet-wide, built from over 180,000 LEGO bricks, which were shipped here from the UK. The magnificent centerpiece is London’s St. Landmarks include the Empire State Building, the Roman Colosseum, the Sydney Harbor Bridge and the 2012 Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London. “We go right ’round every continent in the world and look at different styles of building and architecture, iconic things you could see if you spent years working your way around the world.” “It’s basically your ultimate around-the-world trip in LEGO models,” LEGO Artist Warren Elsmore told WTOP. Visitors will take a world tour across all seven continents, including lively streetscapes from Cartagena, Colombia Mardi Gras celebrations in New Orleans intricate temples from India to Mexico and imaginative castles from medieval Japan to modern Las Vegas. All those things come together in this exhibition.” What better way to do that than with LEGO bricks? They’re a wonderful, multi-generational medium that people have a chance to explore their creativity with design, construction, even a little engineering. “We always want to inspire curiosity and wonder about the world that we design and build. “It’s 300 square feet of LEGO brick extravaganza,” Exhibitions Developer Caitlin Bristol told WTOP. museum launches an exciting two-year LEGO exhibit fittingly called “Brick City.” ![]() The National Building Museum often showcases the grand designs of real-world architects and engineers, but every once in a while, it’s important to examine the fundamental building blocks of our childhood imagination. WTOP's Jason Fraley previews 'Brick City' at the National Building Museum (Part 1)
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