UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The Penn State All-Sports Museum will commemorate the iconic structure of Beaver Stadium with a new, three-dimensional model built entirely of Lego bricks, the museum announced.
Based on the stadium’s layout from 2001 to 2024, the model is constructed of 7,647 individual pieces. It took Lego artist Garrett Gourley — founder of Back 2 Brick and a 2015 Penn State Industrial Engineering graduate — almost 100 hours to build. Its creation was made possible by a donor’s $2,500 gift to the museum.
The All-Sports Museum will unveil the new model to the public for the first time on Saturday, July 27, at 10:15 a.m. It will remain on permanent display in the museum lobby.
Visitors also will be able to view the recently completed, Nittany Lion logo mosaic, a public participation project that the museum sponsored during last week's Central PA Festival of the Arts. Families, Penn State student-athletes and museum staff placed 9,476 Lego bricks over four days to complete the 30-inch square mosaic.
Opened in 2002, the Penn State All-Sports Museum is located at the southwest corner of Beaver Stadium and honors the achievements of all the men and women who have built the proud tradition of Penn State Intercollegiate Athletics over the past 148 years. The museum is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and on Sunday from noon to 4 p.m.
Admission is by suggested donation of $8 for adults and $5 for children, seniors and students. For more information, call 814-865-0044 or email psusportsmuseum@psu.edu; follow on Facebook and Instagram @psusportsmuseum.
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