Sunnyvale museum builds partnership with Lego group

It takes a village

An entire townscape, including a running train, has been created entirely from Lego bricks for a new exhibit opened at the Sunnyvale Heritage Park Museum.

The museum is partnering with the Bay Area Lego Users Group, aka BayLUG, for the exhibit. Other BayLUG creations include gingerbread villages at Christmas in the Park in San Jose and the Museum of American Heritage in Palo Alto. Since BayLUG member Minkun Chan is a Sunnyvale resident, wanted to create a display in her hometown.

It took four BayLUG members to set up the display over two Sundays, with a good deal of pre-planning and pre-building. The village includes a Tudor house, rotunda, hospital, bar, reindeer stable, post office, courthouse, vegetable farm, school, bowling alley, fire station, office, gym, pet store, bakery, candy land, ice cream parlor, lighthouse and residences, as well as a ski park, Trojan Park, a beach and an ocean.

The gingerbread village will be open until Jan. 12, 2025, and can be viewed during regular museum hours Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays, noon-4 p.m. opening times. Admission is free.

The Sunnyvale Heritage Park Museum is located at 570 E. Remington Drive. For more information, call 408-749-0220 or email info@heritageparkmuseum.org.

Players sound off

The Sunnyvale Theatre will be alive with “The Sound of Music” Oct. 26-Nov. 10 when the Sunnyvale Community Players stage Rodgers and Hammerstein’s final musical. The story of the von Trapp family singers won five Tony Awards on Broadway, and the film version won five Oscars.

Showtimes are Thursdays-Saturdays at 8 p.m. at Sundays at 2:30 p.m. For tickets, visit Sunnyvaleplayers.org.