The Henry Ford Museum is currently hosting the LEGO Architecture: Towering Ambition Exhibit. The exhibit will be at The Henry Ford Museum through February 24, 2013. The exhibit is free with your Henry Ford Museum admission.
The exhibit was developed by the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. My family visited the exhibit there in April 2011. We can’t wait to visit it again now that it is at the Henry Ford Museum. Especially since we are Henry Ford Museum members and receive free admission to the museum.
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| Sears Tower at National Building Museum |
The exhibit features scale models of a number of famous buildings and some buildings that were designed but never built. The Museum Gallery housing the exhibit will include a LEGO Create area where kids and parents can create their own building (residential, commercial, institutional, or industrial) and place it on a large-scale city map. For younger kids, there will be a Duplo and Soft LEGO play area at the opposite end of the museum near the Allegheny Locomotive.
The exhibit corresponds overlaps nicely with the LEGO displays that are usually part of the holiday decorations at the Henry Ford. The LEGO train created by the Michigan LEGO User Group will be on display between November 20, 2012 and January 6, 2013 near the Allegheny Locomotive.
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| 2010 Holiday Train Display |
From 10a-4p on weekends in December they are offering FREE Learn-to-Build sessions where children ages 10 (recommended) and up with an adult will learn to create a specially designed miniature of the museum’s clocktower. You can talk to the staff to purchase your model. Even though the recommended age is 10 and up, I feel that my daughter (almost 7) would be able to attend with our assistance. She is very good at putting sets together following directions. She was able to assemble the LEGO Architecture Sears Tower with minimal assistance 2 years ago.
The Brick Challenge with Nick Brickly will be held every Saturday in January with shows at 11:30a and 2p. The Brick Challenge is a double-dare-style LEGO challenge. Saturdays in January will also feature build demonstrations by the Michigan LEGO Users Group from 3-5p. They will be building a model of Detroit’s Renaissance Center.
Finally, the exhibit will wrap up the weekend of February 23-24 with LEGO Architecture Architect Adam Reed Tucker.
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