Time for a summer “block” party at Seattle’s Museum of History & Industry! Towers of Tomorrow with LEGO® Bricks partners some of the world’s most dazzling and innovative skyscrapers with the world’s most popular building brick. The exhibit features astonishing skyscrapers from North America, Asia and Australia constructed in breathtaking architectural detail by Ryan McNaught, one of only 21 LEGO® Certified Professionals in the world.
Visitors will be inspired to create their own ‘towers of tomorrow’ with over 200,000 loose LEGO® bricks available in hands-on construction areas. Young and old will be limited only by their imaginations as they add their creations to a steadily rising futuristic LEGO® metropolis inside the exhibit. McNaught and his award-winning team of builders have used more than half a million LEGO bricks and devoted over 2,400 hours to build the structures featured in the exhibit.
Generous support for Towers of Tomorrow with LEGO® Bricks in Seattle is made possible by The Boeing Company, Scan Design Foundation, and the MOHAI Exhibits Fund. Media support is provided by The Seattle Times, Cascade PBS, ParentMap, and KEXP.
On view from May 25 — September 22, 2024.
Towers of Tomorrow with LEGO® Bricks include:
Towers of Tomorrow with LEGO® Bricks is a traveling exhibition produced by Museums of History NSW (MHNSW) and toured internationally by Flying Fish.
Towers of Tomorrow with LEGO® Bricks is made up of more than 577,000 LEGO® bricks.
More than 24,000 — nearly six months of constant construction.
All the LEGO® bricks used in this exhibit weigh more than 1.5 tons.
At 104,800, Shanghai Tower uses the most LEGO® bricks at this exhibit.
The rarest LEGO® brick color is Gold.
The most common LEGO® brick color is Trans-blue.
Released beginning in 1978 and weighing just 2.32 grams, the most common LEGO® brick is the 2×4.
Invented in 1958, the LEGO® brick is 66 years old.
Sky high – 40 billion LEGO® bricks stacked one by one would reach from the earth to the moon.
Did you know? The first LEGO® toys were made from wood instead of plastic.
Brain cruncher – 915,103,765 combinations can be created from just six 2×4 LEGO® bricks.
The tallest LEGO® structure was built in Milan, Italy which measured a soaring 35.05 m (114 ft 11 in) and required approximately 550,000 LEGO® bricks to complete.
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