{"id":810,"date":"2026-03-13T00:54:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T10:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hilug.org\/?p=810"},"modified":"2026-03-13T00:54:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T10:54:43","slug":"aloha-bricks-26-at-bishop-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hilug.org\/?p=810","title":{"rendered":"Aloha Bricks &#8217;26 at Bishop Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"708\" src=\"https:\/\/hilug.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AlohaBricks26-2048x708.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-811\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hilug.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AlohaBricks26-2048x708.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/hilug.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AlohaBricks26-300x104.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hilug.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AlohaBricks26-768x265.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hilug.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AlohaBricks26-1536x531.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Screenshot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We are excited to share a \u00a0major new project &#8211; we&#8217;ve been working with the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bishopmuseum.org\/bricks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bishop Museum<\/a>, Hawaii&#8217;s premier natural and cultural history museum, on a brick-built exhibit called Aloha Bricks &#8217;26. Conceived by museum staff with our support, the exhibit highlights Hawaii&#8217;s landmarks, flora, fauna, and schools. The exhibit consists of four main components:<br><br>-minifig-scale replicas of Hawaii&#8217;s landmarks, including Iolani Palace, the Bishop Museum, the Hawaii Theater\/Chinatown, the USS Arizona Memorial and Bowfin Submarine, and Hawaiian Airlines&#8217; aircraft fleet through the years, the Hokulea voyaging canoe, and a Pasha ship &#8211; all designed and built by HILUG members<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-mosaics of flora and fauna studied by Bishop Museum scientists, designed and built by museum staff<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-mosaics of 50 different intermediate school mascots from all across the state, built by students at each of those schools<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-large-scale sculptures of the i&#8217;iwi bird, Hawaiian tree snail, kalo (taro), humuhumunukunukuapua&#8217;a (Hawaiian triggerfish), and the Hawaiian hoary bat, designed collaboratively between Bishop museum staff and LCPs, and built by LCPs<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Plus, a 100-foot long winding table with over 200,000 white bricks for visitors to create with!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This exhibit had a preview night tonight and we had the honor of untying the lei and opening the doors! We are honored to have played a significant role in this home-grown show that highlights our island home. One of our local TV stations ran a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.khon2.com\/local-news\/aloha-bricks-hawaii-exhibit\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">nice news segment about the exhibit<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out the show, running at least until Oct. 11\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are excited to share a \u00a0major new project &#8211; we&#8217;ve been working with the\u00a0Bishop Museum, Hawaii&#8217;s premier natural and cultural history museum, on a brick-built exhibit called Aloha Bricks &#8217;26. Conceived by museum staff with our support, the exhibit highlights Hawaii&#8217;s landmarks, flora, fauna, and schools. The exhibit consists of four main components: -minifig-scale [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[52,10,8,6,33],"class_list":{"0":"post-810","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"tag-afol","8":"tag-bishop-museum","9":"tag-hawaii","10":"tag-lego","11":"tag-moc","12":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hilug.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hilug.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hilug.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hilug.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hilug.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=810"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hilug.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":813,"href":"https:\/\/hilug.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810\/revisions\/813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hilug.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hilug.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hilug.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}