To celebrate Singapore’s 60th birthday, the National Museum of Singapore exhibited the country’s largest LEGO mural.
Composed of 265,743 blocks, it’s no “Water Lilies” by Ai Weiwei; instead it depicts a more prosaic scene of Singapore shophouses as they were in the 1960s.
What I did find interesting, at least for kids, is that the museum asked visitors to complete the mural. Numbered spaces on the mural and a diagram had schoolkids fill in the blanks from a brick inventory.
It’s kind of a neat idea, and I could see a savvy schoolteacher setting something like this up to get a classroom involved in a satisfying group activity. It would be a more orderly version of “Exquisite Corpse.”