Sunnyvale Heritage Museum: Roaring Camp Rail Adventure Created with Lego Bricks

Description

Relive moments of your childhood, especially if you were a Lego builder, on a visit to the new summer exhibit at the museum. – After the resounding success of the Gingerbread Village built with Lego bricks, our Holiday exhibit, the SHSMA is collaborating with BayLUG (Bay Area Lego Users Group) again to bring a spectacular show for the summer! The entire upstairs space will be used for a display recreating Roaring Camp, the popular park near Santa Cruz. 

In order to create the scenery as close to reality as possible, the Lego users group took a field trip to the Roaring Camp Railroads park and worked from photographs they brought home from that outing. It was a conscious decision to depict the park as it is today – a tourist attraction, not as a period piece from the Old West. 

BayLUG members collaborate on these displays which they create for museums and other organizations, each building individual pieces which are then put together to create the whole scene. The aim was to document every building and feature found in the park and recreate it with Lego bricks. Visitors will see a variety of buildings and landscapes, and the scene will be enlivened with running trains! 

In order to extend the opportunities for families to see this exhibit, the museum will be open on three Saturdays as well: June 14 and 28, and July 19. 

There will be an admission charge for this special exhibit of $5 per person/$4 for SHSMA members (free for children under two - must be carried by a parent). Parents are responsible for their children, and we ask that they stay close in order to preserve the precious display.