Lego House : 2 new attractions are opening in time for your Diwali break

Lego House : 2 new attractions are opening in time for your Diwali break .2 new attractions are opening in time for your Diwali break.

Call 2017 a year of hot openings: from London’s Design Museum and Cape Town’s Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa to the upcoming Louvre Abu Dhabi. This week’s new arrivals, besides being huge and creatively inspiring, also invite travellers to dive deep into a childlike sense of curiosity and awe. Here’s why you should queue up for Tokyo’s Yayoi Kusama Museum and the Lego House in Billund, Denmark :

                                             Lego House 3d model free


Legendary Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama’s works have influenced the creations of Andy Warhol and appeared on the Instagram feeds of Katy Perry and the like. Chances are you’ve glimpsed Kusama’s art too—tapestries of polka dots speckled across horses, humans, and even a Louis Vuitton collection of bags and dresses. Her ‘infinity rooms’ are so popular that tickets are timed to 30 seconds per person.


















                  Yayoi Kusama's famed Infinity Mirrored Room from a previous exhibition.

You enter a tiny mirror-clad room that endlessly reflects twinkling lights, phallic tubers or luminous pumpkins, and for a moment, you lose yourself in a sense of boundless space. Kusama’s work is fantastical and comes from her own attempts to use repetitious patterns to blot out the visual and aural hallucinations that have filled her world from childhood. Since 1973, she has voluntarily lived in a psychiatric facility in Tokyo and paints and makes sculptures in her studio nearby. Major retrospectives of her work have been held at London’s Tate Modern and New York’s Whitney Museum, and now, at 89, the artist will open her own museum on 1 October 2017. It’s easy to get lost in Kusama’s works, but use your time wisely—each ticket buys you 90 minutes in the five-storey museum. The museum will open with immersive installations and paintings from her exhibition Creation is a Solitary Pursuit, Love is What Brings You Closer to Art; exhibitions rotate every six months. Tickets are already sold out for October and November 2017, but stay tuned for December tickets that go up for sale on 1 October 2017. Open Thursday–Sunday. Tickets ¥1,000 (Rs600) per adult and ¥600 (Rs350) per child aged 6–18yrs; free for children under 6yrs. Book here

                              BIG-designed LEGO house takes shape in denmark

We’re already humming “Everything is awesome!” For a taste of childhood, make a pit stop at Lego House, open to the public from 29 September 2017. Spend your day stacking cities, manoeuvring robots, shooting stop-motion films with your creations, and building sea creatures that will be scanned into life inside a giant digital aquarium. Gauge the competition at the Masterpiece Gallery dedicated to fan creations, look for your childhood set in the museum, and if you arrive early, hit the nine rooftop playgrounds. Also onsite are three restaurants and a retail store. Built at Lego’s headquarters in Billund, Lego House evokes the contours of the iconic toy brick and has been designed by the acclaimed Bjarke Ingels Group. In case you never want to leave, Legoland Holiday Village and Hotel Legoland are nearby. Open daily. Tickets for DKK199 (Rs2,100); free for children under 3yrs. Book here.