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LEGO Inside Tour 2024 Registrations Now Open (Billund, Denmark)

The LEGO Inside Tour is now open for registration. Registration open for three days only from October 16, 2023 (10am CET) to October 19, 2023 (10am CET).

Eight tours will be available and each tour lasts three full days in 2024. It will be at Billund, Denmark in Europe. You’ll get to see the inside of the LEGO group and places that you normally can’t see. These include visits to the Billund factory, home of the LEGO founder and lots more. 

You’ll also get a free exclusive limited LEGO set. It is a special gift to each guest. 

Full details of the LEGO Inside Tour including registration can be found on their website .

LEGO ®  House, ‘Home of the Brick’ takes you on three unforgettable days that let you experience the LEGO Group from the inside and give you access to several places that are normally inaccessible. See LEGO bricks of all shapes and colors being produced on an exclusive guided tour through the Billund factory and visit the home of Ole Kirk Kristiansen, the LEGO founder, where it all started. Enjoy a build session with LEGO designers and immerse yourself in our internal unique museum on a guided tour. Get a special shopping experience and when it’s time to say goodbye, we will treat you with a unique and exclusive LEGO set. Duration:  3 full days The LEGO Inside Tour will take place on eight dates in 2024: 17-19 April / 22-24 May / 29-31 May / 19-21 June / 11-13 September / 2-4 October / 9-11 October / 30 October – 1 November Sign-up:  There will be eight tours available in 2024 – sign-up for all tours will be open from October 16, 2023 at 10.00 am CET and will close October 19, 2023 at 10.00 am CET.  Please be aware that there might be many more sign-ups to the tours than seats available.

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Visit the 'Home of the Brick' - a unique LEGO® experience in Denmark

The LEGO® House is made by 21 BIG LEGO Bricks

The Tree of Creativity is built from 6,316,611 bricks

The LEGO® House is designed by the Danish famous architect Bjarke Ingels

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LEGO® House

The LEGO® House is a unique experience centre where you can play with the world-famous LEGO BRICK. The first Lego factory was built here, and the headquarter is still here.

As a neighbour to the world-famous  Legoland Amusement Park  in Billund in  Southern Jutland , the Lego family has created the perfect conditions for a unique visit for you and your family in the surroundings, where it all began back in 1947.

The LEGO House is a museum and experience centre in Billund, the LEGO brand's birthplace. The LEGO House was opened to the public in September 2017 and is a 12,000-square-meter building designed to look like giant LEGO bricks stacked on each other.

The LEGO® House results from an idea and dreams the LEGO family conceived years ago. With this 'House', LEGO® celebrate creativity and the strength of learning through play. When children play, they learn the basic skills they need, such as creativity, collaboration and problem-solving abilities - all this you can get by playing with the tiny bricks.

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The LEGO® House consists of an exciting experience area, restaurants, a LEGO Store, a conference centre and a remarkable 2,000-square-meter public space known as the LEGO Square.  With the ticket, you can go on an exciting tour in the six experience zones, where you can get the whole history of  LEGO®,  and try out the endless options with the bricks by the motto - 'learn through play.´ Outside the Lego House, you can explore LEGO Square, play at the playgrounds on the nine roof terraces and visit the LEGO Store. Do you get hungry, there are several restaurants. In one of them, you will find a unique LEGO twist, which shows LEGO's creative abilities - you will discover when you arrive.

The LEGO House offers a range of interactive experiences for visitors of all ages, including hands-on exhibits, play areas, and building challenges.

Different play zones in the LEGO® House

By entering the experience area, you are greeted by 'the Tree of Creativity' - a 15-meter high tree, and one of the giant LEGO® constructions ever made. It took 6,316,611 standard LEGO® bricks and 24,350 hours to assemble this wonder.

Before entering the special coloured play zones and activities, visiting the 'Masterpiece Gallery' on the top of the LEGO® House is an obvious choice. Skilled LEGO® fans worldwide present unbelievable creations as a tribute to the LEGO® brick.

The ground level has restaurants, conference space, a store, and a 20,000-square-foot public square. The following two levels feature play zones arranged by colour. In the special coloured play zones, you can train different skills. 

The experience is divided into four colour-coded zones, each with its own theme and activities:

Red Zone - Creative Process: This zone is all about the creative process behind LEGO building, with exhibits on design, engineering, and problem-solving.

Blue Zone - LEGO History: This zone traces the history of the LEGO brand, from its humble beginnings as a wooden toy company to its current status as a global brand.

Green Zone - LEGO Cities: This zone is all about urban planning and architecture, with exhibits on building design, city planning, and transportation.

Yellow Zone - World Explorer: This zone is all about exploration and adventure, with exhibits on dinosaurs, pirates, and outer space.

Overall, the LEGO House is a must-visit destination for LEGO fans of all ages, offering a unique and interactive experience that celebrates the creativity and imagination of the LEGO brand.

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A renowned Danish architect designed LEGO® House

The Danish architect Bjarke Ingels designed the House and is one of the most inspirational architects of our time. His architecture embodies an optimism that is playful, practical, and immediately accessible, which you can also discover when visiting the Lego House.

Bjarke Ingels has designed buildings worldwide, including the Danish Pavilion,  VM Houses in Copenhagen ,  8-TALLET  and  Danish National Maritime Museum  in Helsingør. In the U.S., Bjarke Ingels designed VIΛ 57 West at 57th Street in Manhattan and was selected to design the tower at Two World Trade Center in 2015.

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LEGO House , LEGO’s brand new visitor center , is now open in Billund, Denmark . The New York Times peeks at a few Experience Zones in the new building, as well as some of the LEGO-making machines within the factory in this short Daily 360° video tour .

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The LEGO Inside Tour – The Best 3 Days Ever for a 7-Year-Old

By Eric Stoen on June 22, 2015 • Last Updated January 18, 2023 This post may contain affiliate links. Read my Disclosure here .

The LEGO Inside Tour – a Review

The LEGO Inside Tour. I first heard of this tour at LEGOLAND Billund three years ago, and it seemed too good to be true – a Golden Ticket in the Willy Wonka spirit that lets 140 people a year (four groups of 35) tour the LEGO factory, meet the LEGO designers and go behind the scenes at LEGOLAND Billund and the LEGO operation overall. Yep, literally hundreds of millions of people play with LEGO bricks every year and only 140 of them get to see LEGO from the inside. Sign us up!

Actually, we waited three years because the minimum age for the tour is seven*, and my son (and the biggest LEGO fan in the family) only turned seven last September. This was the first time he would be eligible for the LEGO Inside Tour. How did we get tickets, you’re asking? Just by going online.

In September/October every year, LEGO’s website publishes the date when its Inside Tour tickets will go on sale for the following summer. It changes every year. Last year tickets went on sale at 1pm (Denmark time) on November 3rd. That meant 4am in California. No problem – I set my alarm, opened up a web browser, and clicked refresh a dozen times until I saw the registration form. I typed as quickly as I possibly could and hit Submit. I hoped for the best.

Three days later I received the magic emails: “Congratulations!” each began. “You made it to the list of participants of LEGO Inside Tour June 9-12.”

So what did the LEGO Inside Tour consist of? Everything! In my recap below I’ll note the highlights, but I’m purposely leaving out some details. There were surprises around every corner, and I don’t want to spoil them for any of you who are so inspired by this post that you get tickets for next summer. Suffice it to say it was a brilliantly-organized three days that gave us insights into every aspect of LEGOLAND Billund and beyond. It was extremely impressive how much thought they put into the details, especially because only 140 people a year get to see those details.

Arrival Day at LEGOLAND BILLUND

After spending two days in Oslo to recover from jet lag, we took an hour-long flight on SAS to Billund and then a five-minute taxi ride to the LEGOLAND Hotel . We arrived to find large packets of information waiting for us, in addition to multiple gifts and two season passes to LEGOLAND Billund with our photos on them. Cool! There were also two bags of LEGO bricks and a building challenge – the first of many building challenges throughout the week. As there were no official activities on the arrival day, off to LEGOLAND we went.

LEGOLAND Billund

We first visited LEGOLAND Billund six years ago, when we only had two kids (1 1/2 and 3 at the time). We love it – it’s a park with some rollercoasters for older kids, but is largely aimed at younger visitors. There’s a great DUPLO section for really small kids, there are rides for all ages, and there are opportunities everywhere to build with LEGO bricks. And a Tuesday afternoon in early June when European schools are still in session is a great time to go.

There were no lines at LEGOLAND Billund, so we went on several rides over and over. We bought some mini-figures. We had lunch. It was a great few hours. One of the things that I love about LEGOLAND Billund is seeing how different it is from Disneyland. There’s a real campfire where you can bake your own bread. Glass bottles? No problem. Dogs? Welcome.

LEGO Inside Tour Day One

Our first official day of the LEGO Inside Tour started with a get-together at the hotel, where we met the other lucky participants (from 11 countries), received name badges and created mini-figures in our likenesses to attach to the badges. We then headed off to the LEGO Idea House, which is really a LEGO museum only for LEGO employees. It’s a great museum – telling the story of LEGO founder Ole Kirk Christiansen and how he transitioned from building wooden toys to creating and refining the LEGO blocks.

The museum showcased a lot of the current sets and there were plenty of opportunities to build. But the coolest thing was the basement. In a highly-secure library-type setup with moveable stacks, there’s one copy of every LEGO set ever sold. We were able to go back to the very first sets, see (and hold) the initial Star Wars and architecture sets, see the product lines that have come and gone, and drool over all of the sets that simply don’t exist anymore, even on the collector market.

From there we went back to the LEGOLAND Hotel and met with several LEGO designers who told us about how they came to work for LEGO, showed us the sets that they’ve designed, and even showed us sets that haven’t been released yet. That made us drool a little more! They then led us into a building challenge where everyone was split up into teams. Each team had to work together to create an object out of LEGO bricks to solve a specific problem (see, I’m not giving away all of the details!), and it was fun seeing how different each of the solutions was. It was a great chance to get to know others on the tour.

After dinner, there was yet another building challenge. We had access to pretty much every LEGO brick and element and could design anything we wanted. The specific challenge was to create something that would fit well into the LEGO product catalog – something that could be sold at a reasonable price point and would be fun for others to build and play with. My son and I built for a couple of hours, handed in our creations and went to bed. Some people worked on their creations well into the night.

LEGO Inside Tour Day Two

Day Two started with a trip to LEGO Headquarters. We surrendered our phones and cameras and were taken to a presentation room where we saw some of the LEGO products in development. Most interesting was a demonstration of LEGO Worlds – a new online game that allows you to build a world slightly similar to Minecraft but with a definite LEGO feel and LEGO twists throughout. We can’t wait to play it at home!

From there, we drove over to the LEGO Factory. Talk about a very, very cool experience! We saw every element of the factory and every stage of the LEGO creation and long-term storage. Highlights were:

• The huge silos holding tiny granules of plastic (technically acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS)) that become LEGO bricks and the pipes that take those granules to the molding machines;
• The incredibly heavy, incredibly expensive molds that have been precisely crafted to create every LEGO element – from the standard bricks to the unique parts of various sets (think Ninjago swords or Christmas trees);
• The machines that melt the plastic and inject it into the molds for just a few seconds before a recognizable brick is ejected into a storage box;
• The robots that roam the factory to replace the full storage boxes with empty boxes (based on weight) and transport them to a conveyor system leading to long-term storage;
• The long-term storage facility. It reminded me of the final scene of Raiders of the Lost Ark – an enormous facility with shelving that continued forever – both away from us and up almost as far as we could see. We watched a robot take each storage box, read its bar code, and then decide where to move it for storage. Amazing!

I wish I could post photos of the factory during our LEGO Inside Tour, but as with most of the places we visited we weren’t allowed to take pictures. Just another reason for you to sign up for next year’s LEGO Inside Tour and see it for yourself! FYI, in response to all of the emails I get, the LEGO factory in Billund is 65,000 m 2  – approximately the size of 11 football fields.

The next stop on the tour was the LEGO campus and the warehouse/distribution center. We took a tour of the facility, had lunch and met with more LEGO designers to see the clay-molding process that leads to the creation of new elements and mini-figures. So much fun to see the process and meet the people who have created some of the coolest LEGO elements, including the electronic elements like light-up bricks and Mindstorms. We also had a quiz on LEGO trivia and a very fun unexpected activity that was one of my son’s highlights. I’m not going to say exactly what it was, but let’s just say that we now have a lot of new mini-figures at our house.

And our day was only half-over! Next up was a trip to the LEGO employee shop, where we were able to purchase LEGO sets and products at the employee discount. We went crazy! I think we bought 15 or so new sets that are now being shipped to our house. Many, many weeks of LEGO creation will be arriving at our door very soon.

From the employee store, we went to a small showroom dedicated to the new LEGO House. This is going to be great when it’s finished – a museum similar to the internal one that we visited the day before, but far larger and open to the public in Billund. The architecture is amazing – the building looks like it’s made of LEGO bricks, and in an incredibly creative, stacked way (see below). The LEGO House will open in the next two years and looks to be well worth a visit – or for us a return visit. Too bad our season passes will have expired by then!

After a short break, we went to dinner inside a closed LEGOLAND Park with even more LEGO designers. I can’t overstate how interesting it is being able to talk to these men and women about the design process and the stories behind the designs (like for the Chima and Ninjago sets). Then after dinner, we went back to the hotel for an awards ceremony for the creations that we made the night before. Some of the designs from our fellow participants were amazing! The cool thing was that everyone had the same bricks and elements to craft from and everyone created such different, unique things. My son won a LEGO Star Wars set for his “shooter shark ship”. I was a non-winner but received a LEGO Superhero set as a consolation prize.

LEGO Inside Tour Day Three

Day Three centered around LEGOLAND Billund . We got to go behind the scenes to see the other side of the rides and meet the designers/crafters who create the large LEGO sculptures in the parks. Very interesting to see the creative process, talk about maintenance and replacement of the sculptures, and see the integration of mechanical elements with some of the creations.

We then had lunch in the park and returned to the hotel for a speech by a LEGO recruiter. After three days of being in the LEGO world and mindset, of course, you’re thinking “wow, it would be so cool to work here.” So it was brilliant to close out the tour with a speech about, well, how we could go to work for LEGO. It’s not easy to get hired, and there are a lot of other people worldwide who want to work for LEGO, but the company is growing quickly and hiring.

Some of the employees we met had done the LEGO Inside Tour years before, so there is definitely an employment path for those who wish to pursue it. I’m a travel writer so I’m moving on, but wow, I’ll always remember these three days. It truly was an extraordinary bucket list experience , and if you think it sounds great as well, remember that I’m leaving out some of the coolest elements to maintain the surprise, including a very unique gift at the end. Start checking the Inside Tour website now! And let me know if you get in next year.

Summary Information

Kid Friendly:  Very! Level of Difficulty:  Easy

Airline/Routing:   United  LA-Newark-Oslo and then SAS Oslo-Billund a couple of days later. We departed on a direct Billund to Amsterdam flight on KLM a couple of hours after the LEGO Inside Tour ended.

Hotel:  LEGOLAND Hotel .   Three nights with a park-view room (basically inside the park) are included with the Inside Tour ticket. There would be no reason to want to stay anywhere else. The hotel was great and I fully trusted my son to roam the hotel without me, playing with his new friends or heading to the lobby, screening room or gift store.

Total Trip Length:  Four Days

Days of School Missed:  Zero (summer break)

Cost:   The Inside Tour the year we went cost roughly US$2,200 per person. It was worth it! That included three nights at the LEGOLAND Hotel , meals for three days, wine, LEGOLAND Billund season passes, a visit to the company store where we saved hundreds of dollars using the employee discount, all of the activities/events I mentioned above, and many, many unique gifts, including two truly priceless ones at the end. Plus it was the trip of a lifetime for a seven-year-old, and is way up there on my “coolest things ever” list as well.

*Important Note

2019: Unfortunately LEGO has changed the minimum age of the Inside Tour to 10. Pretty grinch-like if you ask me, since it was an absolutely perfect trip for seven-year-olds. By ten my son had switched from LEGO to football/soccer. They now have a one-day LEGO Fan Tour that includes a lot of the Inside Tour elements for a much less expensive price and that is still open to seven-year-olds.

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June 25, 2015 at 2:37 am

Hi, were you allowed to buy anything there, like sets or bulk lots of certain bricks?

Alec Australia

June 25, 2015 at 10:40 am

Hi Alec. At the employee store we were allowed to buy any sets that we wanted (but only two max of the same set) and up to 16 minifigures. I don’t remember seeing bulk lots or containers of bricks there.

June 30, 2015 at 7:59 pm

Great review! I was lucky enough to go on the next tour (16-19 June) and had a very similar experience to yours. Definitely an amazing, once-in-a-lifetime experience. I was wondering if you’ve received your purchase from the Lego employee shop yet and, if so, how long did it take to arrive? I’m eagerly awaiting my order and am trying to get a sense of how much longer I’ll likely need to wait 🙂

Thanks! Craig

June 30, 2015 at 8:20 pm

Hi Craig – our two boxes were delivered in Colorado June 22, so 11 days after we were at the store. Not sure where you are, but by that math you should have had yours yesterday. Hopefully you get them soon! We’re already done with the Death Star and moving on to the other sets!

August 9, 2022 at 8:18 am

WHERE IS THE LINK>

August 9, 2022 at 8:27 am

In the post at the end of the Day Three section.

January 26, 2016 at 6:39 am

I have two grandchildren, the boy has gotten every set Lego makes. However, I was wondering if they would look out of place since they are now 14 & 15.

January 26, 2016 at 8:26 am

No, they wouldn’t be out of place at all on the LEGO Inside Tour. There were only a few young kids on our tour, there were some older kids and there were a lot of adults. Everyone fit in well. As long as someone enjoys being creative with LEGO blocks, the trip is for them.

February 16, 2016 at 11:35 am

Was 7 a good age for the tour? My 7-year-old loves Legos, but I’m wondering if a special experience like this is better saved for when he is a few years older (when he might appreciate and remember it more)?

February 25, 2016 at 1:01 am

Seven was a perfect age. Kids change and move onto different passions. If you have a 7-year-old who loves LEGO, try to get onto the next tour. Even now at 8 1/2 my son is playing with LEGO bricks a lot less. Any age would have fun on the tour, but passionate fans will have the most fun.

April 1, 2016 at 4:29 pm

How much did you pay for lego in employee store? how much discount you get? I hope to go there, it seemed very fun.

April 1, 2016 at 4:36 pm

We weren’t allowed to have cameras or cell phones with us so I couldn’t check prices, but when I did rough calculations later that day the discounts were anywhere between 40% and 50%.

April 13, 2016 at 4:04 pm

Great article. I’m on the first tour this year. Leaving in less than 4 weeks. You must know how excited I am. I’ve been scouring the net for reviews and any information I can find. This was a great read. Thanks. Were there any other participants from the US on your tour? Just curious.

April 13, 2016 at 8:09 pm

Have fun! Yes, there were a few other Americans, but otherwise it was a diverse group.

May 21, 2016 at 11:50 am

Hi, I’m in the second tour in a few days so i’m very very excited !!! Can we buy more sets that the box sent by LEGO and how can we do to send them at home because that’s very interesting ? @ J : is the exclusive set great this year ? What do you think without reveal it ? Thanks. Julien.

May 22, 2016 at 7:59 am

Very cool – have fun! They’ll ship one full box per person to your home for free. You can also take things with you, up to their purchasing maximums – e.g. no more than x minifigures, two copies of any given set, etc… Then it’s up to you to figure out how to get the excess (plus the exclusive sets) home!

June 19, 2016 at 8:46 am

Is the application first-come,first-served basis? Thanks.

June 19, 2016 at 9:04 am

My assumption is that it is, however they reserve the right to not accept people who have gone on the tour before.

July 2, 2016 at 3:32 am

I’m saving this article for when our youngest boys are 7. Seems like a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Thanks for sharing!

August 2, 2016 at 5:39 pm

Tickets are available on LEGO’s website. They go on sale once a year and are gone within minutes. You’ll need to check the website after the summer to see when they will be on sale for 2017.

August 2, 2016 at 11:24 pm

It used to be first come first served, not for 2016 though. There were people on the tour that signed up days/weeks after registration was open. Some casual fans were on the tour. Many people had tried for years to get on the tour. It was also just 2 nights, same price though. Registration is usually in early November.

August 8, 2016 at 12:43 pm

Thanks for the update. That’s great if they’ve moved away from first come/first served. That made it too difficult to sign up with kids.

November 15, 2016 at 7:54 am

After 2 years of not getting in, we finally got into the tour next (2017) year! We are excited to participate in 2017! Any preparation tips? do you have any travel suggestions leading up to the trip? We will be travelling from Canada so we have the possibility to stop in Iceland, or spend a few days in Denmark?

November 15, 2016 at 10:35 am

Congratulations on getting in! I don’t have any preparation tips other than doing research in advance on the pricing of the sets that you want to purchase. We didn’t have access to cell phones during the visit to the company store, so I wasn’t able to easily compare prices.

For travel, it’s not necessary to spend time in Billund before or after the Inside Tour – there’s not much to do outside of LEGO – so you have all of Europe as an option. Check out the Billud Airport Wiki page . That lists all of the non-stop flights to/from Billund. That may give you some ideas.

February 25, 2017 at 7:10 pm

This is a great review. I am so excited that my son received his wish and his Make A Wish trip will be this Lego tour in 2017. Thank you for the sneak peek. We have not received all of our information but the days are quite full. It shows out evening break but I wanted to see what type of other breaks they had(lunch, bathroom, snacks). I just like to be prepared. Thank you for taking the time for this review and your reply!

February 26, 2017 at 12:37 pm

That’s great that you got onto a tour! I honestly don’t remember the break schedule, but everything scheduled was fairly casual – even at the museum or during building competitions, we could always duck out for the bathroom or for a snack. They take care of you. All meals were scheduled/included, and I don’t remember ever getting hungry.

February 27, 2017 at 10:05 am

Awesome, thank you so much for responding! We are truly so excited and feel so blessed. I tend to over prepare sometimes just due to some of his medical needs.

February 28, 2017 at 12:42 am

Hi, I was very lucky to do the LEGO INSIDE TOUR last year and this year that will be my wife and daughter in law who are going to do it in the second session of May, when are you going Melissa ? The organisation is absolutely perfect and the staff is very professionnal and guarantee you a nice journey. So i come back this year to spend time in the LEGOLAND Park. We are very very excited !!! You can have a look on my last year review at this link on a french website : http://www.hothbricks.com/lego-inside-tour-2016-julien-y-etait-raconte/ You can easily translate, if you have any questions don’t hesitate ! Regards. Julien.

April 3, 2017 at 2:17 pm

Aaaaaand this is the coolest thing I’ve ever read about. Bummed that my son will only be 6.5 when we’re in Europe next year!

August 11, 2017 at 11:35 am

Thank you for the great review, we hope to get into the next tour !

August 11, 2017 at 11:56 am

October 9, 2017 at 12:14 pm

We are anxiously anticipating our LIT in a couple weeks. I have become an avid reader of your blog and I appreciate your values as it relates to luggage and the hassle/benefit it holds.

We are travelling to Copenhagen a few days before the tour and then will be attending the LIT. If you were to do it again/over what would you take as luggage? We are travelling as a family (two adults one preteen!)

October 17, 2017 at 7:55 am

Have fun on the Inside Tour! I didn’t realize that they shifted them from summer-only. That’s great.

I would say to definitely have some extra room in your luggage. The store will ship sets for you, but you’ll be receiving other things during your trip, including the exclusive sets at the end (three of them if there are three of you).

October 17, 2017 at 11:02 am

To secure the LIT set i would keep it in the cabin luggage… You’ll bring back too the model that you’ll create during the building challenge of the first evening. Many goodies too + the LEGO House visit including the 21037 set. At the employee shop that’s very interesting for the big sets : imagine the new MF 75192 half price 🙂 Let us know if the exclusive set will be the same that the previous group of this year.

November 5, 2017 at 7:51 am

Hey Julien,

We are back from the LIT 2017. Yes. The LIT set was the same as those handed out in May/June. We are very happy with the he set, but haven’t built it yet! Unfortunately the UCS Millenium Falcoln is even sold out at the employee store, although there was one at the Lego House store. Even at half price, it’s still expensive, although we were lucky enough to have dinner one night with its designers, so that would have made it easier to justify.

The LIT did not disappoint!

October 31, 2017 at 2:55 am

Can you shed any light on when it is you pay the LIT tour fee? is it straight away on the day you do the application form or within a certain number of days after being accepted?

Regards, Richard

October 31, 2017 at 8:58 am

Our Inside Tour started June 9. Payment was due by February 27.

November 5, 2017 at 7:52 am

We were on the October 2017 tour and our payment was due before Christmas 2016 😱😱😱😱. But worth it! Good luck!

November 29, 2017 at 8:36 pm

An article inThe Guardian claims the factory is half a kilometre long

November 30, 2017 at 10:10 am

Thanks! Just received official notice from LEGO that the factory is 65,000 m2 and approximately 11 football fields.

February 2, 2018 at 4:21 am

how big is the lego staff shop? i’m going on the tour in september ☺☺☺☺☺

February 2, 2018 at 7:12 am

It’s big! They had most things there that we wanted. Easily enough that we filled up our allotted boxes.

April 21, 2018 at 7:29 pm

For a 7 year old and for me Eric LOL!

May 25, 2019 at 6:49 pm

Can you arrange for a group of 15 students & educators?

May 25, 2019 at 7:31 pm

I can’t do anything. I was simply a participant. You’re welcome to contact LEGO and ask them.

February 28, 2021 at 5:56 pm

How much is shipping for what you buy at the Lego employee discount shop from Billund to The US. If it’s 1 box for free does that mean 1 set or a shipping box that can hold multiple sets?

February 28, 2021 at 6:58 pm

It’s one large box per person for free that holds a lot of LEGO sets.

August 30, 2021 at 4:17 am

What information do I need to fill in for registration?

August 30, 2021 at 12:54 pm

If you go to the Inside Tour website, linked in the blog post, you will see that LEGO has four tours in 2022 and they go on sale on October 26, 2021. If you go to the website on that date you will see the information you need to complete.

July 16, 2022 at 8:29 pm

i will have a ticket for the LIT 2022

just a question: I come by car, so can bring the lego sets i buy easily home. But after shopping in the employee-store… where do you leaf the sets you bought?

bring them back in the hotel, let them in the bus, they will bring it to you car?

July 23, 2022 at 2:02 am

Hi Harm. Have an amazing time!

Since they kept our sets to ship them to us, I cannot speak to the best way to transport your sets from the store. That’s a question for your LEGO representative.

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LEGO House: My Experience Visiting the Home of LEGO in Denmark

by Andy | Oct 7, 2022 | Travel , Trip Reports | 0 comments

If you were me, you’d be building things with your brother in your game room.  God those are great memories.

There’s no introduction I need to make for the endless fun of LEGO.  You know what they are, what you can do with them, and have probably seen some of the incredible LEGO creations which boggle the mind with their scale.

But you’ve never seen anything like this.

I was in Denmark recently for many reasons, among them having dinner with some great friends at the world’s best restaurant .

I had a few days to spend in Denmark before meeting my friends back in Copenhagen so I decided to take a little roadtrip.  Remembering how stupid I was the last time I decided to take a roadtrip from Copenhagen , I settled for a far more reasonable trip this time, exploring a bit of Denmark’s Jutland region.  After a night in Aarhus, where I enjoyed the lovely harbor area, I made my way to the home of LEGO: Billund, Denmark.

Billund is a quiet town of only 6100 people in central Denmark.  In the 1930s it was even smaller, only having a few hundred people, when The Lego Group was founded.  Over the years the town grew, an airport was added, and LEGO built itself (ha, see what I did there) into the enormous company it is today.  LEGO never left their roots, though, as 90% of LEGO products are still manufactured in Billund today.

Perhaps the pinnacle of the LEGO empire is the LEGO House, right in the middle of Billund.  It’s the perfect place for LEGO lovers of all ages to, well, come and play!  It opened in 2017 and I had heard about it for years.  I had to finally visit.

The LEGO House

The LEGO House is designed to look like it’s built from LEGO bricks, a beautiful building in the middle of an older town center.

(I tried to get a big wide shot of the building but tried to be sensitive about including children in pictures so I couldn’t get a great shot)

Tickets are simple to purchase, simply go to LEGOHouse.com and they will walk you through everything.  Since it gets crowded, you purchase a ticket for a specific entry time.  Checking in was easy, I simply scanned a QR code and a wristband was printed for me.  Your wristband is your ticket to the entire LEGO House experience, so take good care of it!

They had lockers where people can store extra bags (accessible via, you guessed it, your wristband), so I grabbed my camera and threw my backpack in one of the lockers before beginning my journey.

I scanned my wristband at the main entry gate and was welcomed in by the screen.  The first thing you encounter is the enormous Tree of Discovery, built from six million LEGO bricks and standing 15 meters tall.  On top of each “platform” of the tree were different LEGO sets, including a few I had built as a child!  There is a spiral walkway around the tree, inviting you to pause and gaze at the intricate sets adorning the “leaves”.

Once you make it to the top of the spiral walkway and have gazed at the Tree of Discovery long enough, you’ll arrive at the Masterpiece Gallery, a rotating exhibit of incredible creations using LEGO bricks.  There was a dinosaur theme when I was there.

The scale of these creations were incredible, and even moreso when you looked up close to see just how much detail went into their construction.

Experience Zones

The LEGO House has a variety of Experience Zones, each with a different task or activity to complete.  How you approach these areas is up to you, and I found there’s probably a lot of overlap with how you approach these areas and how you tend to build LEGO sets.  There were people carefully following all the instructions given while others (like me) were just like HEY COOL LEGO BRICKS and just starting building stuff.

The Red Zone was anchored by an enormous “waterfall” of LEGO bricks cascading into a sea of colorful bricks, allowing you to build whatever your mind could think of.

It had been forever since I had run my hands through a bin of LEGO bricks, it immediately brought back great memories as I started building things.  I won’t spoil all the surprises of each zone for you, but my favorite was the Blue Zone, for a simple reason…race track.

The Blue Zone has an activity that guides people through seeing how weight affects speed and flight of things.  You can put your knowledge to the test by BUILDING A RACE CAR and yeeting it down a little ramp (the beginner course) or, if you’re good, can send your racer careening off a jump and through a loop!

I built a humble little racer out of the part bins they had distributed around the Blue Zone.  It may not have looked the best but it was imminently functional.  So basically I built an A380.

I skipped the beginner track and went right for the jump loop test track.

I courageously put my race car (and its trusty driver, Willie) onto the track and sent it directly to a perilous calamity against the loop.  Things smashed everywhere.  I humbly picked up what was left of Willie and his car and went back to the drawing board.  I was confident in my design and blamed Willie for everything.  My pep talk must have worked because this was my second attempt!

It was so much fun!

I walked through the other Experience Zones and participated where I could without getting in the way of families playing together.  It was fun just being there (even though I was by myself) but it was even more fun watching adults participating right alongside their kids.  At every station there were LEGO House team members guiding people through the activities and smart use of technology throughout (you could build a fish, for example, out of LEGO bricks, insert it into a slot, and watch it come to life in a digital “aquarium” right in front of you!).

Seemingly everywhere you turned was yet another masterwork of LEGO creation as well.

The exhibits were great but I just found myself playing with the myriad bins of LEGO bricks and making all sorts of fun stuff.

After the Experience Zones I went down to the museum in the basement.  It was a fascinating look at how a small woodworking company from the tiny village of Billund, Denmark, changed the world.  It wasn’t an overnight success either.  The museum was honest about The LEGO Company’s successes and missteps along the way.  The last part of the exhibit really spoke to how LEGO got back to its roots and embraced play, no matter the age of the customer.  There’s a huge AFOL (adult fan of LEGO) community out there and LEGO’s expansion into more complicated sets has been met with enormous success.

The LEGO Restaurant

One of the coolest experiences they offer is their MINI CHEF restaurant.  You have to make a separate booking for this but it is definitely worth it!

I was seated at a booth that came with a small screen, a menu, and, curiously, a small set of LEGO bricks.

A waitress appeared to walk me through the concept: each LEGO brick represents a different entree.  You BUILD YOUR MEAL OUT OF LEGO BRICKS and that’s how you order!

I went with this contraption.

Once you’re ready to order, you insert the entire white cartridge into the screen at your table.  The computer reads the LEGO bricks and turns it into an order for you.  Once verified, your order is sent to the kitchen.

And that’s where the robot chefs come in.  Because of course there are robot chefs.

Your order is placed into giant LEGO bricks which flow down a conveyor belt until they reach these two lovable chefs.  One of them will push your order to you and you’re ready to go!

Opening your meal is just like any other LEGO experience!

My meal was tasty and simple, what you’d expect from Danish cuisine.

Summing up the experience

Everything about the LEGO House experience focuses guests on one thing: play.  And the wristbands play a part in that.  Don’t have a camera?  No problem.  Scan your wristband at photo stops, they have cameras set up to take your picture and the pictures will be saved for you to download later!  It’s so much easier than handing your phone to strangers or anything like that.

As I went back and downloaded my pictures it brought back wonderful memories of a creative day at the LEGO House!

The final stop before leaving

The last stop before you exit is the Six Red Brick machine.  A miniature LEGO brick printing machine stamps out packets of six red bricks, which can be assembled in millions of different combinations.  When you scan your wristband, you get a custom combination, unique to you, that is yours forever!

It was amazing seeing freshly-born LEGO bricks created and packaged right in front of my eyes!

Here’s my combo, if you’d like to build it for yourself.

Let me sum it up for you

If you’re in Denmark and have any affinity for LEGO culture, go to the LEGO House!  Billund is a couple of hours away from Copenhagen but it’s an easy drive.  The smiles you see, either on your own face or your children’s faces, will be all worth it.

I can’t wait to go back!

Are you a LEGO person?  I don’t mean a little brick person but are you a LEGO enthusiast?  Tell me in the comments below!

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LEGOLAND Germany features a playful “factory” attraction which gives visitors a first-hand look at the making of LEGO toys. Bezark created the overall attraction concept and script, and designed the interactive exhibits. Adam Bezark wrote and directed the three-minute introductory video, which takes visitors on a whimsical tour of the real LEGO factory in Billund, Denmark… where we discover that the factory is run by tiny LEGO characters. (Video produced by Simex Digital Studios.)

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LEGO ® House, "Home of the Brick", is the ultimate experience centre in Billund - the hometown of the LEGO brick. 12,000 m 2 large and filled with 25 million LEGO bricks, LEGO waterfalls and giant animals and plants. The house offers experiences for children and adults of all ages, who want to develop creatively and explore the endless possibilities for Learning through Play through the LEGO brick.

Part of the LEGO Group

In LEGO House we share our overall mission with the LEGO Group – to inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow. It demonstrates our shared heritage and is the guiding star for everything we do.

The LEGO eco system includes: The LEGO Group LEGO Ventures LEGO Education LEGO Foundation

Learning through play

Lego fans of all ages play and have fun. they experiment, challenge, test boundaries, make mistakes and try again. they learn..

When children and adults of all ages play in LEGO House it is primarily to have fun and explore the endless possibilities of the LEGO brick. However, as you play you also learn a great deal. Research shows, that play is one of the best ways to develop the brain and acquire the necessary life skills such as collaboration, creativity and problem solving. In that way fun, play and learning are closely connected in LEGO House.

There are a number of skills you develop in LEGO House depending on which color zone you play in. The Yellow Zone is where you can really express yourself with bricks, which develops emotional skills. In the Blue Zone , you work with your cognitive skills by solving problems and handle challenges. The figures, universes and the stories in the Green Zone stimulate your social skills and your creative skills are put to work in the Red Zone , where you can build creatively on a big scale with bricks. Finally, your physical skills are developed – both when you are building and when you investigate the exciting outdoor spaces. Overall a tour around LEGO House stimulates your brain development whilst you are having fun.

The architecture

Bjarke Ingels Group was responsible for the construction of LEGO House, so it is also an experience itself to visit and enjoy the beautiful and imaginative architecture. The house is built like 21 giant LEGO bricks that balance one each other, and the facade is covered with tiles that look like classic 2x4 LEGO bricks. There are plenty of quirky details to discover around the house for both small and grown up children.

LEGO House is built on careful consideration and thorough work. And that's why we're also proud to have received numerous nominations and awards recognizing just that. Here you can see a list and read more about the prices we have received.

TIME for Kids

World's coolest places for kids LEGO House has joined destinations from all over the world on the list of coolest kids' places. Each nomination has been evaluated on several factors including quality, originality, sustainability and accessibility.

The Michelin Guide 2019

2 out of 3 stars LEGO House has been awarded two stars in the green Michelin Guide 2019. “LEGO House is an experience not to be missed (...) A five-zone playground that invites children to use their creativity and ingenuity with their parents".

Frame Award 2019

Winner in the category "Best use of Digital Technology" The digital technology is designed to go seamlessly hand in hand with the physical play and incorporates the story of the main hero: The LEGO brick.

Civic Trust Award 2019

For a positive local impact This award is given to recognise outstanding architecture, planning and design in the built environment. We received the prize as a recognition of our value and positive contribution to the local community.

INSIDE World Festival of Interiors awards 2018

Category “Civic, Culture & Transport” The INSIDE awards are recognized by designers, architects and clients alike. LEGO House together with BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group LEGO House won in the category of “Civic, Culture & Transport”.

Good Design Award 2018

Winner in the category "Environment" The award is a recognition of the ability to combine a valuable layer of narrative, technology and facilitation, which together creates a unique and innovative environment for the visitors.

TEA Awards for Outstanding Achievement

Winner in the category "Brand Center" The TEA Committee wrote: “All the activities are designed to foster learning through play and advance childhood development through immersion and engagement.”

Cannes Corporate Media & TV Awards 2018

Prizes in two categories The documentary "LEGO House - Home of the Brick" won a gold within Web Documentaries and a silver in the Lifestyle, Art, Music & Culture category.

See the documentary here and read about the award here .

Architizer A+ Awards 2018

Concepts - Plus-Architecture +Branding LEGO House is Popular Choice and Jury Award winner within the largest awards program, focused on celebrating the year’s best architecture and products.

Danish Design Award 2018

Winner in the category "Feel Good" For achieving the criteria of providing “solutions that speak to people's feelings and senses and simply give a sublime experience”.

SXSW Innovation Awards

Visual Media Experience Award The award was given to the activity "Fish Designer" for achieving “content creation and delivery that moves beyond passive viewership by providing a more immersive and engaging entertainment experience”.

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The Moscow Metro Tour is included in most guided tours’ itineraries. Opened in 1935, under Stalin’s regime, the metro was not only meant to solve transport problems, but also was hailed as “a people’s palace”. Every station you will see during your Moscow metro tour looks like a palace room. There are bright paintings, mosaics, stained glass, bronze statues… Our Moscow metro tour includes the most impressive stations best architects and designers worked at - Ploshchad Revolutsii, Mayakovskaya, Komsomolskaya, Kievskaya, Novoslobodskaya and some others.

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The guide will not only help you navigate the metro, but will also provide you with fascinating background tales for the images you see and a history of each station.

And there some stories to be told during the Moscow metro tour! The deepest station - Park Pobedy - is 84 metres under the ground with the world longest escalator of 140 meters. Parts of the so-called Metro-2, a secret strategic system of underground tunnels, was used for its construction.

During the Second World War the metro itself became a strategic asset: it was turned into the city's biggest bomb-shelter and one of the stations even became a library. 217 children were born here in 1941-1942! The metro is the most effective means of transport in the capital.

There are almost 200 stations 196 at the moment and trains run every 90 seconds! The guide of your Moscow metro tour can explain to you how to buy tickets and find your way if you plan to get around by yourself.

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• 2-hour tour $87:  10 Must-See Moscow Metro stations with hotel pick-up and drop-off
• 3-hour tour $137:  20 Must-See Moscow Metro stations with Russian lunch in beautifully-decorated Metro Diner + hotel pick-up and drop off. 
• Metro pass is included in the price of both tours.

Highlight of Metro Tour

• Visit 10 must-see stations of Moscow metro on 2-hr tour and 20 Metro stations on 3-hr tour, including grand Komsomolskaya station with its distinctive Baroque décor, aristocratic Mayakovskaya station with Soviet mosaics, legendary Revolution Square station with 72 bronze sculptures and more!
• Explore Museum of Moscow Metro and learn a ton of technical and historical facts;
• Listen to the secrets about the Metro-2, a secret line supposedly used by the government and KGB;
• Experience a selection of most striking features of Moscow Metro hidden from most tourists and even locals;
• Discover the underground treasure of Russian Soviet past – from mosaics to bronzes, paintings, marble arches, stained glass and even paleontological elements;
• Learn fun stories and myths about Coffee Ring, Zodiac signs of Moscow Metro and more;
• Admire Soviet-era architecture of pre- and post- World War II perious;
• Enjoy panoramic views of Sparrow Hills from Luzhniki Metro Bridge – MetroMost, the only station of Moscow Metro located over water and the highest station above ground level;
• If lucky, catch a unique «Aquarelle Train» – a wheeled picture gallery, brightly painted with images of peony, chrysanthemums, daisies, sunflowers and each car unit is unique;
• Become an expert at navigating the legendary Moscow Metro system;
• Have fun time with a very friendly local;
• + Atmospheric Metro lunch in Moscow’s the only Metro Diner (included in a 3-hr tour)

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Novokuznetskaya

Revolution Square

Sparrow Hills

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• Drop-off  at your hotel, Novodevichy Convent, Sparrow Hills or any place you wish
• + Russian lunch  in Metro Diner with artistic metro-style interior for 3-hour tour

Fun facts from our Moscow Metro Tours:

From the very first days of its existence, the Moscow Metro was the object of civil defense, used as a bomb shelter, and designed as a defense for a possible attack on the Soviet Union.

At a depth of 50 to 120 meters lies the second, the coded system of Metro-2 of Moscow subway, which is equipped with everything you need, from food storage to the nuclear button.

According to some sources, the total length of Metro-2 reaches over 150 kilometers.

The Museum was opened on Sportivnaya metro station on November 6, 1967. It features the most interesting models of trains and stations.

Coffee Ring

The first scheme of Moscow Metro looked like a bunch of separate lines. Listen to a myth about Joseph Stalin and the main brown line of Moscow Metro.

Zodiac Metro

According to some astrologers, each of the 12 stops of the Moscow Ring Line corresponds to a particular sign of the zodiac and divides the city into astrological sector.

Astrologers believe that being in a particular zadiac sector of Moscow for a long time, you attract certain energy and events into your life.

Paleontological finds 

Red marble walls of some of the Metro stations hide in themselves petrified inhabitants of ancient seas. Try and find some!

• Every day each car in  Moscow metro passes  more than 600 km, which is the distance from Moscow to St. Petersburg.
• Moscow subway system is the  5th in the intensity  of use (after the subways of Beijing, Tokyo, Seoul and Shanghai).
• The interval in the movement of trains in rush hour is  90 seconds .

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Tour of famous Moscow Metro. Explore the Underground World! (2 hours)

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On this tour you take in some of Moscow's most important and highly decorated stations. Carrying up to 7 million passengers a day and covering almost the entire city, the Moscow Metro is one of the most extensive mass transit systems in the world. It's famous for the fine examples of social-realism which decorate many of its stations.

Visit some of the most important stations and get the chance to admire spectacular baroque-style ceilings, marble statues, busts of Communist heroes, stained glass windows, and ceiling mosaics depicting the bright Soviet future. Visit the most remarkable stations like Komsomolskaya, Kurskaya, Kievskaya and others, with the experienced guide who will bring you a full insight into their fascinating history.

• Tour of Moscow's Metro system visiting beautifully decorated key stations on the network.
• System that carries more than 7 million passengers per day
• Views of the most opulently designed tunnels & platforms
• Significance to the country—known as the “People's Palace”
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If you wonder why the Moscow metro is considered one the most beautiful in the world, this tour is made for you!

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Departure and return point: nearest metro station to your central Moscow hotel  

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Moscow Metro Underground Small-Group Tour - With Reviews & Ratings

Moscow metro underground small-group tour.

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Key Details

• Mobile Voucher Accepted
• Free Cancellation
• Duration: 3 Hrs
• Language: English
• Departure Time : 10:00 AM
• Departure Details : Karl Marks Monument on Revolution Square, metro stop: Square of Revolution
• Return Details : Metro Smolenskaya
• If you cancel at least 4 day(s) in advance of the scheduled departure, there is no cancellation fee.
• If you cancel within 3 day(s) of the scheduled departure, there is a 100 percent cancellation fee.
• Tours booked using discount coupon codes will be non refundable.

Go beneath the streets on this tour of the spectacular, mind-bending Moscow Metro! Be awed by architecture and spot the Propaganda , then hear soviet stories from a local in the know. Finish it all up above ground, looking up to Stalins skyscrapers, and get the inside scoop on whats gone on behind those walls.

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We begin our Moscow tour beneath the city, exploring the underground palace of the Moscow Metro. From the Square of Revolution station, famous for its huge statues of soviet people (an armed soldier, a farmer with a rooster, a warrior, and more), we’ll move onto some of the most significant stations, where impressive mosaics, columns, and chandeliers will boggle your eyes! Moreover, these stations reveal a big part of soviet reality — the walls depict plenty of Propaganda , with party leaders looking down from images on the walls. Your local guide will share personal stories of his/her family from USSR times, giving you insight into Russia’s complicated past and present. Then we’re coming back up to street level, where we’ll take a break and refuel with some Russian fast food: traditional pancakes, called bliny. And then, stomachs satiated, we are ready to move forward! We’ll take the eco-friendly electric trolleybus, with a route along the Moscow Garden Ring. Used mainly by Russian babushkas(grannies) during the day, the trolleybus hits peak hours in the mornings and evenings, when many locals use it going to and from their days. Our first stop will be the Aviator’s House, one of Stalin’s Seven Sisters, followed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs — and you’ll hear the legends of what has gone on inside the walls. Throughout your Moscow tour, you’ll learn curious facts from soviet history while seeing how Russia exists now, 25 years after the USSR.

Local English-speaking guide

Pancake snack and drink

Additional food and drinks

Tickets for public transport

Souvenirs and items of a personal nature

Tips and gratuities for the guide

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Confirmation will be received at time of booking

Dress standard: Please wear comfortable shoes for walking. For your Urban Adventure you will be in a small group of a maximum of 12 people

Traveler Reviews

This tour exceeded our expectations. Nikolai (Nick), our tour guide, was very knowledgeable, thorough, and has a great personality. He didn't take shortcuts and really covered everything that was on the agenda in great detail. We saw beautiful metro stations and learned the history behind them, including many of the murals and designs.

We did the tour with Anna her knowledge and understanding of the History surrounding the metro brought the tour alive. Well done Anna!

This tour was amazing!

Anna was a great tour guide. She gave us heaps of interesting information, was very friendly, and very kindly showed us how to get to our next tour.

Amazing beauty and history.

An excellent tour helped by an absolutely amazing guide. Anna gave a great insight into the history of the metro helped by additional material she had prepared.

great tour and guide - thanks again

great will do it again, Miriam ke was very good as a guide she has lived here all here life so knew every interesting detail.a good day

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Why were so many metro stations in Moscow renamed?

Okhotny Ryad station in Soviet times and today.

The Moscow metro system has 275 stations, and 28 of them have been renamed at some point or other—and several times in some cases. Most of these are the oldest stations, which opened in 1935.

The politics of place names

The first station to change its name was Ulitsa Kominterna (Comintern Street). The Comintern was an international communist organization that ceased to exist in 1943, and after the war Moscow authorities decided to call the street named after it something else. In 1946, the station was renamed Kalininskaya. Then for several days in 1990, the station was called Vozdvizhenka, before eventually settling on Aleksandrovsky Sad, which is what it is called today.

The banner on the entraince reads: "Kalininskaya station." Now it's Alexandrovsky Sad.

Until 1957, Kropotkinskaya station was called Dvorets Sovetov ( Palace of Soviets ). There were plans to build a monumental Stalinist high-rise on the site of the nearby Cathedral of Christ the Saviour , which had been demolished. However, the project never got off the ground, and after Stalin's death the station was named after Kropotkinskaya Street, which passes above it.

Dvorets Sovetov station, 1935. Letters on the entrance: "Metro after Kaganovich."

Of course, politics was the main reason for changing station names. Initially, the Moscow Metro itself was named after Lazar Kaganovich, Joseph Stalin’s right-hand man. Kaganovich supervised the construction of the first metro line and was in charge of drawing up a master plan for reconstructing Moscow as the "capital of the proletariat."

In 1955, under Nikita Khrushchev's rule and during the denunciation of Stalin's personality cult, the Moscow Metro was named in honor of Vladimir Lenin.

Kropotkinskaya station, our days. Letters on the entrance: "Metropolitan after Lenin."

New Metro stations that have been opened since the collapse of the Soviet Union simply say "Moscow Metro," although the metro's affiliation with Vladimir Lenin has never officially been dropped.

Zyablikovo station. On the entrance, there are no more signs that the metro is named after Lenin.

Stations that bore the names of Stalin's associates were also renamed under Khrushchev. Additionally, some stations were named after a neighborhood or street and if these underwent name changes, the stations themselves had to be renamed as well.

Until 1961 the Moscow Metro had a Stalinskaya station that was adorned by a five-meter statue of the supreme leader. It is now called Semyonovskaya station.

Left: Stalinskaya station. Right: Now it's Semyonovskaya.

The biggest wholesale renaming of stations took place in 1990, when Moscow’s government decided to get rid of Soviet names. Overnight, 11 metro stations named after revolutionaries were given new names. Shcherbakovskaya became Alekseyevskaya, Gorkovskaya became Tverskaya, Ploshchad Nogina became Kitay-Gorod and Kirovskaya turned into Chistye Prudy. This seriously confused passengers, to put it mildly, and some older Muscovites still call Lubyanka station Dzerzhinskaya for old times' sake.

At the same time, certain stations have held onto their Soviet names. Marksistskaya and Kropotkinskaya, for instance, although there were plans to rename them too at one point.

"I still sometimes mix up Teatralnaya and Tverskaya stations,” one Moscow resident recalls .

 “Both have been renamed and both start with a ‘T.’ Vykhino still grates on the ear and, when in 1991 on the last day of my final year at school, we went to Kitay-Gorod to go on the river cruise boats, my classmates couldn’t believe that a station with that name existed."

The city government submitted a station name change for public discussion for the first time in 2015. The station in question was Voykovskaya, whose name derives from the revolutionary figure Pyotr Voykov. In the end, city residents voted against the name change, evidently not out of any affection for Voykov personally, but mainly because that was the name they were used to.

What stations changed their name most frequently?

Some stations have changed names three times. Apart from the above-mentioned Aleksandrovsky Sad (Ulitsa Kominterna->Kalininskaya->Vozdvizhenka->Aleksandrovsky Sad), a similar fate befell Partizanskaya station in the east of Moscow. Opened in 1944, it initially bore the ridiculously long name Izmaylovsky PKiO im. Stalina (Izmaylovsky Park of Culture and Rest Named After Stalin). In 1947, the station was renamed and simplified for convenience to Izmaylovskaya. Then in 1963 it was renamed yet again—this time to Izmaylovsky Park, having "donated" its previous name to the next station on the line. And in 2005 it was rechristened Partizanskaya to mark the 60th anniversary of victory in World War II. 

Partizanskaya metro station, nowadays.

Another interesting story involves Alekseyevskaya metro station. This name was originally proposed for the station, which opened in 1958, since a village with this name had been located here. It was then decided to call the station Shcherbakovskaya in honor of Aleksandr Shcherbakov, a politician who had been an associate of Stalin. Nikita Khrushchev had strained relations with Shcherbakov, however, and when he got word of it literally a few days before the station opening the builders had to hastily change all the signs. It ended up with the concise and politically correct name of Mir (Peace).

The name Shcherbakovskaya was restored in 1966 after Khrushchev's fall from power. It then became Alekseyevskaya in 1990.

Alekseyevskaya metro station.

But the station that holds the record for the most name changes is Okhotny Ryad, which opened in 1935 on the site of a cluster of market shops. When the metro system was renamed in honor of Lenin in 1955, this station was renamed after Kaganovich by way of compensation. The name lasted just two years though because in 1957 Kaganovich fell out of favor with Khrushchev, and the previous name was returned. But in 1961 it was rechristened yet again, this time in honor of Prospekt Marksa, which had just been built nearby.

Okhotny Ryad station in 1954 and Prospekt Marksa in 1986.

In 1990, two historical street names—Teatralny Proyezd and Mokhovaya Street—were revived to replace Prospekt Marksa, and the station once again became Okhotny Ryad.

Okhotny Ryad in 2020.

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