Gallery Two - Wrexham Heritage

18.02.2022 – 07.05.2022

See the world built in LEGO® bricks

They are one of the most recognisable and successful toy companies in the world – but did you know LEGO® bricks used to be manufactured here in Wrexham?

Initially the world-famous bricks were produced in a factory on Hugmore Lane on Wrexham Industrial Estate. Later LEGO built a new UK distribution centre on Ruthin Road.

The Ruthin Road site in particular is still fondly remembered by many local people. Who could forget the iconic, giant LEGO bricks that once stood next to the entrance?

To celebrate this historic connection between Wrexham and the Danish toy manufacturer Wrexham Museum will be hosting Brick Built, a touring exhibition by Warren Elsmore featuring his team’s models of famous buildings, monuments and structures made from LEGO bricks.

The exhibition will include Warren’s LEGO museum containing models and products from the early years of the company up to the present day.

Naturally there will be an area in the gallery where you can build your own LEGO models. Look out also for news of the special events days during the exhibition!

Famous Wrexham landmarks to feature

A highlight of the exhibition will be the model celebrating the civil engineering marvel of the canal age, our local World Heritage Site, the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, created specifically for this exhibition.

Glyndwr University design students are also contributing a film and a model of the School of Creative Arts building for display in the exhibition.

Brick Built: Landmarks in LEGO® bricks will be on show from 18th February until – 7th May 2022.
Entry is FREE.

Image: Courtesy of Warren Elsmore.

From 8.11.2019

Wrexham marked Remembrance Sunday and Armistice Day 2019 with a new exhibition at Wrexham County Borough Museum & Archives: Forgotten Wars: The Royal Welch Fusiliers Around The World 1850 – 1970.

Over the past five years, the main focus of commemorations has been the First World War, but over the centuries the Royal Welch Fusiliers, who recruited heavily across north Wales and were based in Wrexham, were called on to fight in conflicts around the globe. Soldiers from north Wales served in Africa, the Americas, Asia and Europe.

Many of these wars have become footnotes in history books, their monuments on our streets and in our churches often overlooked, even forgotten. However, these wars are well-remembered in other countries and this exhibition highlights this global history that is part of Wrexham’s and Wales’s history.

Highlights of the exhibition include:

Campaign medals from the Crimean War, the Boer War and the 1900 International Expedition to Peking

A letter about Florence Nightingale

Traditional weapons from the North-West Frontier province of the Indian Empire

An Other Ranks’ British Army Uniform from the 19th century

A Chinese communist guerrilla cap from the Malaya Emergency.

A sketchbook from the deployment in Bosnia-Herzegovina

The exhibition opened on November 8th 2019 and will run until summer 2021. Admission is free.