{"id":101786,"date":"2026-01-31T20:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T20:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/101786\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T20:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T20:16:09","slug":"reading-public-museum-hosts-lego-tower-exhibit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/101786\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Public Museum hosts LEGO tower exhibit."},"content":{"rendered":"

Dominic Pereira was in heaven.<\/p>\n

The Reading 8-year-old sat quietly at a long table on the second floor of the Reading Public Museum Saturday morning, his focus squarely on his flittering fingers. With a mix of speed and care, they picked up small, plastic bricks and snapped them together. One was placed on top of another, and then another on top of that.<\/p>\n

Bit by bit, the stack grew taller. And Dominic\u2019s excitement grew more intense as his tower came to life.<\/p>\n

\u201cI like tall buildings because they look a lot cooler than small buildings,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

That perspective \u2014 along with his love for playing with LEGOs \u2014 made the museum the perfect place for Dominic to spend a frigid Saturday morning. It hosted a members\u2019 preview of its newest exhibit: Towers of Tomorrow with LEGO Bricks<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"AdultsAdults and children put together LEGO bricks during the Towers of Tomorrow with LEGO Bricks exhibit at the Reading Public Museum on Saturday, Jan. 31, 2026. (BILL UHRICH\/READING EAGLE)<\/p>\n

The exhibit features LEGO models of iconic skyscrapers from around the world and offers guests a chance to build their own creations through interactive building tables.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a fun exhibit,\u201d said Becky Ruth, the museum\u2019s coordinator of educational events and outreach. \u201cIt\u2019s a chance for people to get creative and practice some of their engineering skills.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe love a hands-on exhibit here at the museum, something people can engage with and not just something on a wall.\u201d<\/p>\n

Michelle Pereira, Dominic\u2019s grandmother, knew as soon as she heard about the exhibit that it was perfect for her grandson.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe loves LEGOs and he loves skyscrapers,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd we love the museum; we\u2019re members. It\u2019s such a jewel for this area to have this<\/p>\n

\u201cWe take all three of our grandkids here. I try to pull them away from electronics and do stuff like this.\u201d<\/p>\n

The touring exhibit, brought to Reading through Flying Fish, features 20 skyscrapers from North America, Asia and Australia. Each is constructed with thousands of LEGO bricks.<\/p>\n

The Taipei 101 stands more than 8 teet gall and is made up of about 18,600 bricks. The Empire State Building stretches just over 7 feet high and consists of about 20,400 bricks.<\/p>\n

Spread throughout the museum, the structures are striking sights.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought the buildings would be a lot smaller, but here we are now,\u201d Dominic said, gazing upward at a trio of towers on the table in front of him.<\/p>\n

Though he typically dabbles in smaller projects at home \u2014 one of his favorite is creating cars \u2014 he guessed that he could probably tackle one of the massive towers, if given enough time.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt would probably take about 340 days,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Robbie Momose was a bit more optimistic.<\/p>\n

\u201cProbably two weeks,\u201d the 8-year-old from Leesport gave as his construction estimate.<\/p>\n

\"FromFrom left, Robbie, 8; Isaac, 9; and Bella Momose, 11, of Leesport put together LEGO bricks during the Towers of Tomorrow with LEGO Bricks exhibit at the Reading Public Museum on Saturday, Jan. 31, 2026. They were at the exhibit with their grandparents Bob and JoAnn Biechy of Birdsboro. (BILL UHRICH\/READING EAGLE)<\/p>\n

Robbie was building his own, much smaller building Saturday alongside his brother and sister, Isaac and Bella. All three are big LEGO fans and were thrilled to check out the exhibit.<\/p>\n

\u201cI like that you can create whatever you want,\u201d 11-year-old Bella said, adding that she usually makes houses.<\/p>\n

Isaac, 9, prefers to builds weapons and likes the versatility of LEGOs.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf they break you can always rebuild them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The Reading Public Museum will feature the Towers of Tomorrow with LEGO Bricks through May 17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dominic Pereira was in heaven. The Reading 8-year-old sat quietly at a long table on the second floor…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,182,139,28,128,130,129,289,706],"class_list":["post-101786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-things-to-do","tag-top-stories-reg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}