Legio Museum
Tony Phan
Het LEGiO-Museum is ontstaan uit samenwerking tussen verzamelaars en bewoners van Grootegast, die de historie van het bekende Deense Speelgoedmerk in het dorp Grootegast onder de aandacht willen brengen. LEGO Nederland was van 1963 tot 1998 gevestigd in het huidige pand van het Museumplein aan de Legolaan. Het grootste aandeel in de collectie komt voort uit de verzameling van Richard Topelen, die hiermee zijn droom, een eigen LEGO museum te openen, tot leven zag komen.
Ook kan iedereen contact met ons opnemen, indien hij of zij over uniek LEGO-materiaal beschikt. Wij zullen dan kijken of dit ook geschikt is voor ons museum. Dit kunnen wij dan in bruikleen tonen in ons museum bij onze vaste expositie of bij onze wisselende thema-exposities.
The former LEGO Nederland building is located at the Legolaan, and this is where you find a special and extensive collection of Lego and an overview of the history of the company in Grootegast. In addition, the museum features a giant Lego city, built with thousands of Lego bricks. It includes well-known buildings such as the Martini Tower and the Groningen city hall. In addition to Lego on display, you can also use Lego to build and play! Alternative options include Lego gaming and a visit to the museum cinema.
Towers of Tomorrow with LEGO Bricks is a traveling exhibition from the Museums of History NSW and toured internationally by Flying Fish. The exhibition is supported locally by Kiewit Companies Foundation, HDR and the Richard Brooke Foundation. Additional support provided by Buildertrend. Media support provided by KETV.
Build it! Fridays
Fridays, June-July, 10AM-Noon
Gather your family and friends and join us for special games like minifig BINGO and LEGO-building challenges, sure to spark your creativity all summer long! Registration is not required, and regular museum admission applies.
The exhibit celebrates 20 years of Lego at the Museum of Surrey and is being put on in partnership with the Vancouver Lego Club (VLC). The group partnered with the museum for their very first Lego show in 2003.
The exhibition opens with some graphics and info outlining the history of Lego. From its humble beginnings in the 1930s as wooden toys through its long, circuitous journey over 90-plus years to become the modern toy that is famous today, Lego has a unique and interesting story.
The dazzling and ostentatious display features sea and land battles, sea monsters, and even a climb-inside viewing bubble. The tunnel is quite small and only the young, or most adventurous will be able to crawl through its tiny access tunnel.
The Final Frontier section sees many starships and space vehicles on fantastic voyages and operations over strange new worlds. Some of the builds seem so intricate, their makers may have been on a five-year mission to complete them.
The next section is an interactive area where young and old can play with Lego at a couple of different building stations. Two walls allow museum-goers to build flat and across or outward, making their own creations.
The Museum of Surrey is located at 17710 56A Avenue. Entrance is free. To find out more info, contact the museum at 604-592-6956, or mus...@surrey.ca, or visit surrey.ca/musuem. The Museum is now closed for the holiday season and will reopen Jan. 16.
The museum is housed in some of the chambers of the Great Baths. These were built for the troops of the Legio II Parthica at the behest of Emperor Caracalla (211-217 CE). The Legion was drawn up by Septimius Severus (193-211 CE) between 196 and 197 CE with the purpose of combating the belligerent Parthians. ln 202 the Second Legion was stationed in Castra Albana, along the Via Appia, near Rome, where it had its high command.
The large baths were built during the reign of Caracalla on a steep slope, as confirmed by the stamps on bricks still in their original position in the structures. The same builders who worked on the Baths of Caracalla in Rome probably also built these baths. The structure measured about 78.5 m on the side facing onto the Appian Way, from where the complex was entered, and it extended to the southwest for about 35 m. The present church of St. Peter was part of the entry side and the remains of ancient masonry are visible on its facades. Like the camp itself, the baths were originally built for the legionaries of the II Parthica. However, its separation from the military camp and their size make it conceivable that they were also used by civilians. The doubling of the room, with two caldaria, two tepidaria and two frigidaria, is perhaps to be attributed to the possibility of separating certain areas of the complex, so that the soldiers, for example, did not come into contact with women. In the Middle Ages, the complex became a residential neighborhood, but the ancient ruins are still visible, embedded in the facades of the modern houses. Today, the best preserved structures are the massive substructures, housing the service areas, which are preserved within the property of the Institute of the Oblate Sisters of Jesus and Mary.
A variety of important archaeological finds are on display in the same room. These include the altar of Cassius Severianus, a leading figure in the Parthic Legion; a marble relief decorated with fasces (carried as a symbol of magisterial and priestly authority); and an exquisite bronze dress-uniform shin guard, depicting the god Mars.
ln the rooms of the Museum, there are on exhibit some accurate copies of the weaponry and dress of the leading figures of the Legion. The exhibition includes, among others, the dress of the Praefectus Legionis, under the direct orders of the Emperor himself.
Wist je dat het eerste LEGO uit de jaren dertig stamt en bestond uit houten eendjes, treintjes en vrachtwagens? Legosteentjes zoals we die nu kennen, kwamen pas in 1958. In het LEGiO-museum kom je alles te weten over het speelgoed waar elk kind mee opgroeit. En natuurlijk mag je ook zelf aan de slag. Schuif aan bij n van de vele lego- en duplotafels in het museum en begin met bouwen!
Het eerste wat opvalt als je het LEGiO-museum binnenstapt, is de enorme speelstad gebouwd met duizenden legosteentjes. Je ziet het stadhuis van Groningen, de Martinitoren en een trein die over de rails langs het treinstation van Zuidhorn en Groningen zoeft. En er zijn windmolens die op volle toeren draaien! In diverse vitrinekasten zie je hoe de bouwsteentjes door de jaren heen veranderd zijn. Zo bleven legosteentjes vr 1958 lang niet zo stevig aan elkaar zitten als nu en werden in 1961 de rubberen legowieltjes uitgevonden.
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Het door de voormalige RUG-student Johannes Bey gebouwde LEGO-Academiegebouw is terug in de provincie. Het LEGiO museum in Grootegast heeft het 70.000 steentjes tellende bouwwerk gekocht van de bouwer.
Johannes Bey studeerde vorig jaar af met een master Euroculture aan de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. Tijdens zijn vier en half jaar durende studie bouwde de Duitser zeshonderd uren aan het Academiegebouw aan de Broerstraat, compleet met toren, fietsenrekken, en bankjes.
Het bouwwerk van Bey stond heel kort in het Academiegebouw, maar nadat Bey klaar was met zijn studie nam hij het bouwwerk mee naar zijn woonplaats in Zuid-Duitsland. Het LEGiO museum probeerde sindsdien om het gebouw van Bey te lenen, maar het kwam tot een verkoop. Het gebouw is sinds maandag te zien in het museum in Grootegast.
Carnuntum (from Ancient Greek Καρνοῦς (Carnous) according to Ptolemy) was a Roman legionary fortress (Latin: castra legionis) and headquarters of the Pannonian fleet from 50 AD. After the 1st century, it was capital of the Pannonia Superior province. It also became a large city of approximately 50,000 inhabitants.[1][2]
Its impressive remains are situated on the Danube in Lower Austria halfway between Vienna and Bratislava in the Carnuntum Archaeological Park extending over an area of 10 km2 near today's villages of Petronell-Carnuntum and Bad Deutsch-Altenburg.
Significant Romanisation happened when the town was selected as the garrison of the Legio XV Apollinaris before 14 AD.[4] A few years later, it became the centre of the Roman fortifications along the Danube from Vindobona (now Vienna) to Brigetio (-Szőny).[3] According to Tacitus,[5] the emperor Claudius ordered the governor of Pannonia "to have a legion with an auxiliary on the bank of the Danube" to protect the losers of a dispute between Germanic tribes (the Quadi and Marcomanni) and deter the victors from the temptation to invade Pannonia. To this period (about 50 AD) belongs the auxiliary castrum of a cavalry ala 1.5 km south-west of the legionary fortress.[6]
In 71 AD, after several campaigns, the Legio XV Apollinaris returned to Carnuntum and rebuilt its fortress. While some of the legion fought in Trajan's Dacian Wars, the main body of the legion remained in Pannonia.
In 308, during the Civil wars of the Tetrarchy, the Emperor emeritus Diocletian chaired a historic meeting there, the Conference of Carnuntum, with his co-emperors Maximian and Galerius, to solve the rising tensions within the tetrarchy.[13][14]
In 374, it was destroyed by Germanic invaders, the Quadi and Iazyges. Although partly restored by Valentinian I,[16] it never regained its former importance, and Vindobona became the chief military centre.[3] During the Barbarian Invasions, Carnuntum was eventually abandoned and used as a cemetery and source of building material for building projects elsewhere. Eventually, its remains became buried and forgotten.
The remains of the civilian city extend around the village Petronell-Carnuntum. There are several places to see in the city: Roman city quarter in the open-air museum, palace ruins, amphitheatre, and Heidentor.
The Roman city ruins are exposed in the open-air museum directly in the present village. One of the ancient houses, called the House of Lucius, has been rebuilt using traditional techniques. It was opened to the public on 1 June 2006.
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