FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 19, 2026
Cincinnati Museum Center opens the gates to LEGO® Jurassic World: The Exhibition Friday
Blockbuster exhibitions features over 50 dinosaurs, props and scenes crafted from six million LEGO® bricks
CINCINNATI - The gates to Jurassic World open this Friday at Cincinnati Museum Center (CMC). LEGO® Jurassic World: The Exhibition is an immersive experience six million LEGO® bricks in the making, bringing you face-to-face with over 30 dinosaur creations and 35 large-scale props, scenes and activities from the iconic film franchise.
After captivating audiences around the world and building on its successful 2025 run in Portland, Oregon, LEGO® Jurassic World: The Exhibition continues its tours in Cincinnati this Friday. 
LEGO® Jurassic World: The Exhibition is a thrilling immersive experience through the stories and characters of Universal Pictures’ and Amblin Entertainment’s Jurassic World franchise. Once guests enter the gates, they are immersed in the inner workings of the Jurassic World lab, where dinosaurs are genetically engineered. Guests then venture to the baby dinosaur enclosure where a life-size LEGO brick Brachiosaurus awaits, weighing over two tons! Journey beneath a flock of Pteranodons then learn how to track dinosaurs across the island before encountering escaped Velociraptors Blue and Delta and, of course, an enormous T. rex – a favorite of many Jurassic World fans.
“Cincinnati Museum Center is known for its dinosaurs, but with the help of The Brickman we are bringing guests face-to-face with dinosaurs in a way they’ve never seen before,” said Elizabeth Pierce, president & CEO of Cincinnati Museum Center. “LEGO® Jurassic World: The Exhibition combines the nostalgic love of the film franchise with the never-grow-up joy of LEGO bricks and endlessly amazing world of dinosaurs.”
One of the highlights of the exhibition created by LEGO® Certified Professional Ryan “The Brickman” McNaught is the enormous Baryonyx model. Weighing in at nearly 900 pounds, the newest LEGO® Jurassic World: The Exhibition dinosaur took the team 790 hours to design and create, using 102,317 LEGO bricks! The finished model is nearly 16 feet long, over five feet wide and stands eight feet tall.
“Cincinnati will be blown away by the scale of the experience,” said McNaught. “Some of these models are the most complex and challenging ones we have made to date, so being able to bring them to Cincinnati is just fantastic. We have created and used new techniques and committed thousands of hours to build these models that I am personally incredibly proud of.”
McNaught is the southern hemisphere’s only LEGO® Certified Professional and the star judge of the hit TV show LEGO® Masters Australia.
For LEGO® fans eager to get their hands on some bricks and start building, LEGO® Jurassic World: The Exhibition offers several activities to unleash their inner Brickman. Build your own island like Jurassic World’s Isla Nublar or create your own dinosaur hybrid. Participate in LEGO paleontology and contribute to a communal mystery mosaic as you watch the sprawling masterpiece take shape. Learn to track a dinosaur by creating species footprints and build your escape vehicle to get away from a pursuing T. rex. With 2.5 million bricks to play with, creativity is not in short supply.
LEGO® Jurassic World: The Exhibition opens this Friday, May 22, at Cincinnati Museum Center. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit cincymuseum.org/Jurassic-world.
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About Cincinnati Museum Center
Cincinnati Museum Center (CMC) at Union Terminal is a nationally recognized, award-winning institution housed in a National Historic Landmark. CMC is a vital community resource that sparks curiosity, inspiration, epiphany and dialogue. CMC was awarded the 2009 National Medal for Museum and Library Service from the Institute of Museum and Library Services and received accreditation from the American Alliance of Museums in 2012, one of a select few museums in the nation to receive both honors. Organizations within CMC include the Cincinnati History Museum, Museum of Natural History & Science, The Children’s Museum, Robert D. Lindner Family OMNIMAX® Theater, Cincinnati History Library and Archives and the Geier Collections and Research Center. Housed in historic Union Terminal – a National Historic Landmark restored in 2018 and recognized as the nation’s 45th most important building by the American Institute of Architects – CMC welcomes more than 1.8 million visits annually, making it one of the most visited museums in the country. For more information, visit cincymuseum.org.