Brick America exhibition comes to Bath

Coming soon to Bath – Brick America: An Adventure in LEGO® Bricks – an off-the-scale, super-fun, family exhibition, celebrating favourite icons from across the USA and inviting everyone to build and play. Visitors will discover famous buildings, cityscapes and vehicles, plus models inspired by movies, history, NASA, iconic people and much more, with many models and mosaics built specially for the American Museum & Gardens by LEGO artist Warren Elsmore and his team.

But the awesome adventure doesn’t stop there! Brick America will include exciting build stations and a chance for visitor creations to be a part of the Brick America Hall of Fame gallery. There will be a LEGO bricks graffiti wall and activities to download to take home. From little builders to serious LEGO experts, everyone is sure to love Brick America.
The exhibition is launching on 22 July with a 3-day, Big Build event, when visitors are invited to work alongside Warren to create a giant model of the Hollywood Sign, in celebration of its 100th anniversary this year. The Big Build event will be run 10.30am–4.30pm on 22nd, 23rd, 24th July and will be a drop-in activity (no need to pre-book a slot). Visitors will create a large LEGO brick out of smaller bricks and Warren’s team will then assemble them to create the sign.

In addition to the main models created by Warren Elsmore, an exciting LEGO model of the Museum’s home, Claverton Manor, built by Bath-based amateur LEGO builder, Richard Hopkins (member of the GertLUG Group), will be on display. The model has taken Richard over 6 months to make and is incredibly accurate. Another fantastic feature of the exhibition will be a LEGO Community Quilt. Celebrating both our acclaimed Textile Collection and the Museum’s community, staff and volunteers will be contributing a decorative LEGO design to make a brick pattern for a special display.