Lego Oedipus, Lego Lord Elgin and Lego Sigmund Freud are parts of a great gift from the Nicholson Museum of Sydney University to the Acropolis Museum.
These figures are a small part of the Acropolis, which was built exclusively by Lego by Ryan McNaught, the Lego-certified professional craftsman.
"The British Museum may refuse to return the Parthenon Sculptures to Athens, but we will donate an entire Acropolis to the new Acropolis Museum," joked Michael Turner, curator of the Nicholson Museum.
Some facts:
-Holding more than 120,000 "Lego bricks" and took about 300 hours to build.
-The model is as accurate as possible with the Parthenon, the Temple of Athena Nike, the smallest temple of the Erechtheion and the Propylaeum.
-It also contains hilarious modern and ancient snapshots made with Lego. In the small conservatory, for example, Theseus walks through a labyrinth to face the Minotaur. In the Odeon of Herodes Atticus Elton John gives a concert for modern tourists. Lord Elgin and his team leave with the marbles of the Parthenon, while Freud, who visited the Acropolis in 1904, stands and admires it. Lego Acropolis has attracted more than 100,000 visitors to Nicholson Museum in Sydney, while the previous exhibition "Lego Colosseum" attracted 90,000 visitors in 2012. Acropolis Museum has reportedly asked Nicholson Museum to lend the exhibition Lego Acropolis.
"This could only happen in my wildest dreams. After waking up all night and not believing how honorable the request of the Greeks was, I told Acropolis Museum that they could not borrow this exhibition. We would give it to them!" said the curator.
