June 18, 2013
The Lego Acropolis at Sydney’s Nicholson Museum
Sydney’s Nicholson Museum will be exhibiting a Lego reconstruction of the Athenian Acropolis on 6th – 7th July.
From:
Timeout Sydney
Lego Acropolis
06-07 Jul
Nicholson Museum’s next monumental (Lego) showHaving conquered the Lego Colosseum, the Nicholson Museum have engaged master builder Ryan McNaught (Australia’s only registered Lego builder) to recreate the 5th Century BC Acropolis of Athens, alongside the later Odeon of Herodes Atticus, a large stone amphitheatre built in 161AD. McNaught’s creations will be the centrepiece of this exhibition, which also features ancient Greek archaeological artefacts from the Nicholson Museum’s collection, including sculpture, pottery, and photographs of the Acropolis from the 1890s. There’s also (of course) a designated Lego construction site, for budding builders.
Lego Acropolis will open with a weekend of family activities, on July 6-7, during which visitors can handle ancient artefacts, meet an ancient Greek hoplite soldier, and explore Greek mythology, among other things.Lego Acropolis details
Nicholson Museum
Address
The University of Sydney
Manning RdCamperdown 2006
Telephone 02 9351 2274
- Sydney’s Parthenon Project : October 20, 2007
- Greece needs to market their archaeological sites better : August 10, 2006
- Lecture in New South Wales on excavations surrounding Mentor wreck : December 6, 2011
- The New Acropolis Museum at Athens Airport : May 30, 2008
- Crane relay to transfer artefacts to New Acropolis Museum : June 1, 2007
- No full moon late night opening at the Acropolis this summer : August 3, 2011
- New Acropolis Museum is most popular museum in Greece : August 16, 2013
- Greek museum visitor numbers increase in 2014 : November 15, 2014
teach_n_travel said,
06.18.13 at 2:31 pm
RT @elginism: Blog post: The Lego Acropolis at Sydney’s @NicholsonMuseum http://t.co/rn3UtgNJvH