Exhibition Bricks

I often heard people complaining about their history lessons being boring, useless, uninteresting. While I rarely felt so, I do understand their concerns, just as to why they need to learn what happened back in the past. Perhaps, a reason for their lacklustre attitude mainly is the lack of visual aids, to "see" the life in history. My stackable exhibition bricks shall address this very issue, by visualizing how the world may have looked like centuries or even millennia ago. Revolving around important steps in history, the exhibition bricks showcase six dioramas of civilization and how we have evolved in "recent" ages:

• Ice Age: partially melted snow, a crystalline pond, a bit of rocks and snowy trees - and a warming campfire
  
• Ancient Egypt: a pyramid, some palms and a mysterious sphinx nearby river Nile
  
• Mesopotamia: the realm between river Euphrates and Tigris, loads of boats, two ziggurats and a city of clay
  
• Classical Antiquity: Greek-Roman high-culture architecture with a temple and a stadium, olive trees and ships sailing off to new horizons
  
• Middle Age: perpetual darkness, or the lost thousand years - or rather a millennium of innovation with a castle and its towers, stables and walls
  
• Modernity: gigantic cities, skyscrapers, glass and concrete, streets and bridges - and some parks
  

In any diorama, we find both human architecture, intertwined with the beautiful nature around us. More importantly, the vitreous exhibition bricks can be accessed from all sides, especially by removing their lid, to get insights into the sceneries. By stacking them arbitrarily, one can create striking sculptures of varying shape, or form one's own timeline of history - or was it rather meant to be a personal ranking?

The model comprises 2874 parts, no minifigure and no sticker. It measures 48 x 40 x 30 studs, when assembled as shown in the two main images. Each small 2 x 2 brick measures 16 x 16 x 11 studs, each large 2 x 3 one 24 x 16 x 11 studs.

The model is based on an expired LEGO Ideas model I submitted in 2022, which I now revised for the BDP.