Head to The Bowes Museum this summer for a fantastical quest of its most treasured wonders recreated in LEGO.
Spectacular sculptures of the Museum’s treasures are being created by renowned LEGO artist and Brick This creator Steve Mayes who is turning The Bowes Museum into an imaginative playground featuring a LEGO Creation Station.
The LEGO Creation Station at The Bowes Museum is where people of all ages can let their imaginations go wild and take inspiration from their own collections to plan and build their own Museum of treasures.
The Bowes Museum will celebrate the opening of this exhibition with a family fun day on Saturday 25th May, where visitors can be challenged in robotics workshops, create vehicles and compete to see how fast they can go on a ramp, have a go at printing with LEGO and investigate in the design laboratory.
Jane Whittaker, The Bowes Museum Head of Collections, said: “The sculptures of our most treasured objects will really take your breath away as will the scale of our LEGO Creation Station. There’s a real nostalgia to building with LEGO. It rekindles a youthful optimism – making anything possible.”
Steve Mayes, Brick This creator, said: “It’s been a thrill to recreate the treasures of the Museum in LEGO. I’m really looking forward to seeing how my creations will spark people’s imaginations, what kinds of museums they might build and what objects they would treasure.”
The exhibition will be open from Saturday 25th May and will run until Sunday 13th October.
For more information about the exhibition and events please head to thebowesmuseum.org.uk.
