My 5 year old absolutely adores Batman so for Christmas we gave her tickets to go and see The Art Of The Brick: DC Super Heroes, billed as the world’s largest collection of Super Heroes-inspired LEGO artwork!
Created by legendary Lego artist Nathan Sawaya, this is the second large-scale exhibition of his that we’ve been to see. It’s actually been two years ago since we saw the last one, blogged about here.
This new The Art Of The Brick, sub-titled DC Super Heroes is a contemporary art exhibition using nearly 2,000,000 bricks to create large-scale sculptures of the most enduring Super Heroes and Super Villains. We went through a series of rooms to see brick sculptures of Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman, as well as the baddies such as The Joker and Harley Quinn.
Needless to say my 5 and 6 year old loved the exhibition. It was in a temporary structure just off the South Bank with plenty of room to run around. My daughter loves Batman but there were plenty of other heroes and villains to look at, some of which we had never heard of before.
The brick art was amazing, we especially loved the Batmobile and some of the comic covers made of brick.
There re more than 120 works of art, all made from Lego bricks. I think we were in the exhibition for about an hour before heading to the shop where there were several large tables of Lego Duplo and Lego to play with.
I would definitely recommend the exhibition if you love Lego or Superheroes. There was plenty for everyone to see and do and a family ticket was quite reasonable at £45. There is also a discount price of £10 tickets on Monday!
Linking up with Cultured Kids
11 Comments
Sarah | Boo Roo and Tigger Too
March 12, 2017 at 4:04 pmThis exhibition looks amazing, we are hoping to visit during the Easter holidays
jenny
March 12, 2017 at 10:46 pmIt’s really good, I would definitely go and see it again!
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March 13, 2017 at 7:03 am[…] weekend was busy as we spent Saturday with some friends and visited The Art Of The Brick: DC Super Heroes exhibition in London. The models were amazing and the children loved it. It was so nice to be out and about in the fresh […]
Choclette
March 13, 2017 at 8:42 pmOh wow. That’s pretty amazing. Think I’d quite enjoy that 🙂
jenny
March 13, 2017 at 10:34 pmThere were some amazing pieces of art.
Nayna Kanabar
March 13, 2017 at 8:50 pmWow what a great exibition, my nephew would love to go there.
jenny
March 13, 2017 at 10:33 pmIt’s good fun for all ages.
Nell (Pigeon Pair and Me)
March 16, 2017 at 2:27 pmI love the eerie lighting in the place! The Ar of the Brick has been on my radar for a while. I really want to take the kids there. I’m not surprised it’s described as Lego art – the constructions are so impressive (and a little terrifying, some of them!) Thanks for linking up with #CulturedKids
Alice Thompson
March 16, 2017 at 6:01 pmLooks like so much fun – you can’t really go wrong can you with lego AND superheroes!
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March 25, 2017 at 7:30 pm[…] hopped on the tube into London for the London Duck Tour. When we were in London a few weeks ago for The Art of the Brick we saw plenty of the distinctive yellow Duck Tour vehicles out and about so I was really happy we […]
catherine hooper
March 28, 2017 at 12:35 pmBrilliant! lego seems to be big business at the moment. Up in the NE we have a lego landmarks exhibit running at the centre for life, and a dino one at a local colliery museum.