Lego House

Thursday, July 16, 2026

Last year, I read that there was a Lego display based on the Yellow House at the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam. We were flying through Amsterdam and I considered changing our flight so we could visit the museum. I checked the dates it would be there and read that when it was done there, it would move to the Lego House in Billund, Denmark. What is the Lego House, I wondered. I read up on it. It’s in the birthplace and headquarters town of Lego – part exploration of Legos and part museum. I decided that rather than change our flight, we would go to Denmark after the band trip. Voila! Here we are.

Here is the brick version of the building

First, we watched a bunch of machines make and package Legos. The whitish granules go in, get dyed, get heated, get shot into molds, get dropped into bins, gets shaken and spun into orderly rows, get counted, get lifted, get dropped into newly created bags, get sealed and cut, and fall into a bin for me to grab. I’m not gonna lie – watching that process was great.

There is a building-tall tree right as you enter. It’s great. On the top of different groups of branches are Lego displays. At the very top, the Lego guys are adding on to the tree.

There are (about) 25 million bricks out for people to play with. You can just build

or you can build a car and race it against others, or you can make a fish that they animate to swim around a giant tank

or you can make a guy that they animate to dance on a screen. My guy danced somewhat enthusiastically. Keith’s guy just wiggled one foot. They knew us! I was delighted.

You can do lots and lots of other things – some we did and some we didn’t. There were lots of displays created by patrons instead of Lego employees. We enjoyed looking at all of them. Here is a small sampling

This needs two pictures. First, it is so cute. Then when you realize the toothpaste is actually a ghost, it is even better.

This is crazy – an actual wearable dress!

This was my absolute favorite. Close up, you could tell what it was, but it wasn’t very clear. It was uneven in depth and kind of all over the place. From across the room, it was perfect. The pictures are trying, but they cannot do them justice.

I think this is so cool because they actually built the shadows into the base. I love it.

Of course, the Lego people built stuff, too!

This burning building seems to have a victim on the roof…

This was part of a huge, complicated city, but is definitely copying the famous picture

Our favorite jam was searching through the gazillion mini fig pieces to make our family.

This is the first Lego set ever sold – before they started making bricks that snapped together.

It was a beautiful day, so after seven hours of Legos, we went for a walk on the sculpture path.

The Lego campus was very cool looking and had a giant mini fig. Giant mini? Jumbo shrimp!

I found a fountain.