Lego® Replica Of Old State House

Has Returned Home

HARTFORD — Connecticut’s Old State House has welcomed back its Lego® alter ego for permanent display at the museum.  Once an attraction at the Old State House in the 1980s, the Lego® model will now permanently sit in the lower level of the museum. The model is four feet wide, five feet long, and over six feet high.

“Connecticut’s Old State House has inspired people for two centuries. Its interior has witnessed charged debates, trials, compromise, the birth of new ideas, and rich conversation. Its exterior has inspired architects and artists” said Sally Whipple, director of educational and community programming at Connecticut’s Old State House. “We’re glad it inspired Lego®. Having the replica back at the Old State House might just encourage others to look at the building in new and creative ways. We’re very pleased to welcome the building back.”

In addition to the miniature model, a play station will be available and visitors will be able to create their own buildings using Lego® bricks.

The museum and gift store will be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is $6 for adults and $3 for children.

In addition to the Lego® presentation, visitors to the Old State House can explore the new exhibit “Want Change?,” where stories about Connecticut residents demonstrate different ways for citizens to engage in effecting change in our state through law, journalism, government, politics, and even small everyday actions that impact our neighborhoods or communities.

The museum also has its perennial favorites available including restored historic rooms; Connecticut Historical Society’s multi-media exhibit “History is All Around Us,” in which visitors are invited to build and rebuild the city of Hartford over time, and discover the ways communities have worked together to solve problems yesterday and today; and Steward’s Museum of Curiosities, which has re-created a museum that occupied the building in 1798.

Connecticut’s Old State House invites visitors of all ages to reawaken their own civic engagement and awareness through authentic, educational and inspiring visitor experiences. The building served as the Constitution State’s original seat of government from 1796 to 1878. It serves today as a physical and virtual classroom, teaching lessons of citizenship past and present and enriching Connecticut’s communities as a laboratory where people of all ages can interact and discover that their voices matter, and that words, ideas, persuasion and debate really can change minds.

Located at 800 Main Street, Connecticut’s Old State House is located within walking distance of the Connecticut Science Center. The museum is open weekdays from 9 am to 5 pm.

For more information, visit CTOldStateHouse.org or call 860-522-6766.