This 90-minute, family-friendly workshop is designed to be both fun and educational, with participants learning interesting facts about architecture and how it shapes the landscape around them.

Participants will work together to create a sprawling miniature city skyline, showcasing the overlap between LEGO® products, play, and architecture. The workshop will also provide participants with amazing tips and tricks for building with LEGO bricks, and is suitable for all skill levels. After the program, participants are encouraged to head upstairs and view VMHC's signature VA250th exhibition, Give Me Liberty: Virginia & The Forging of a Nation.

The workshop will be taught by Ben Edlavitch, a season 4 competitor on Fox's LEGO Masters competition show. Edlavitch is a student at the University of Virginia studying community-focused architecture. His passion for the subject stems from a lifelong love of LEGO bricks and play. Edlavitch approaches architecture with the same playful logic he learned from building with LEGO bricks: that you can take anything apart and put it back together again in a way that makes it better. Edlavitch believes that creating a connection between imaginative play and architecture is essential and can help bring the profession into the present day. He feels that play allows people to explore ideas freely, without judgment, and can open opportunities for creativity and discovery.

Important Notes:

Participants do not need to supply their own LEGO® bricks
Participants will not take home the built model after the workshop.

This program is being offered at 4 different times, but the workshop is the same. December 13 from 10:30am - 12:00pm
December 13 from 1:30pm - 3:00pm
December 20 from 10:30am - 12:00pm
December 20 from 1:30pm - 3:00pm

LEGO® programs are very popular and tickets are limited. Tickets go on sale November 1.
Pricing:

VMHC Member Adult – $17
VMHC Member Youth – $10
Nonmember Adult – $25
Nonmember Youth – $18