Modular Museum

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This build was inspired by my love of museums, and beautiful baroque and neo-classical architecture. I wanted to create something I hadn’t seen in a LEGO set before, and make a grand museum of antiquities for people to add to their LEGO cities that would be compatible with modular buildings, fit on a single 32 x 32 baseplate, and really stand out as a unique and impressive focus in a layout. I also wanted it to stand beautifully alone for those of us without the space for a full layout!

The inside features a true LEGO museum with models which these minifigures would recognise from LEGO history! The staircase spirals up through the exhibits, visible through the back window, leading to the top floor where we emerge from a modernist glass dome, a historically later addition to the museum. Visitors then relax and refresh themselves at the rooftop cafe and gardens for a piece of pizza, a cake, or a cup of coffee. 

The design crystallised when I went to my friends house, who had his modular buildings brilliantly set up on a high shelf, and I realised it would be wonderful if it looked beautiful from low angles too. I designed the arches of the arcade on the first floor back in 2015 when I got back into LEGO as an adult, but hadn’t yet used them in a published build, so I’m delighted that I finally got to make use of them here. The slanting back wall of windows is set in a 6/8/10 Pythagorean triangle so that we get a lovely angle, but the bricks aren’t stressed!