Some places you visit for their size. The Bob Brickman & Brickstory Museum in Rosenheim is one you visit for the opposite reason. On Friday, 23 October 2026, Andrea and I spent an afternoon in a former practice building on Ellmaierstraße, a short walk from Rosenheim's centre, and came out with the feeling you get after a really good small concert: nobody was trying to impress us, and we were impressed anyway. It is a small museum, but a really, really nice one.
The sign above the door. The two mascots set the tone for everything inside.
Who is behind it
The museum is the work of two LEGO® YouTube channels. Bob Brickman is known for building a big LEGO city on camera, along with a Wild West town, an airport, a pirate world and a moon base. Brickstory makes videos about brick news and posts vlogs from the museum itself. A third channel, Brickman Brothers, shows the technical side: the lighting, the controls, the train control and the push-button effects. According to an early forum post on LepinBoard, the two rented a former cosmetics practice in Rosenheim's city centre to give their layouts a permanent home, which explains why the rooms feel more like a friend's very ambitious flat than a museum hall.
That is exactly the charm. You can watch the city being built on YouTube for years, and then walk into the room where it actually stands. The museum says that Bob Brickman and Brickstory are not guaranteed to be there on any given day, but that at least one of the team always is.
What makes it special
The museum gives its own size as about 350 m². That is not much, and it is the reason the place works. Nothing is filler. Every display is dense with detail, and almost everything moves, lights up or makes a noise: trains run through the city, the buildings are lit, there are sound effects, push buttons for visitors, and a day and night simulation.
The family blog Ich spring im Dreieck put it well after its own visit earlier this year: the hidden details and jokes are what makes the exhibition, and each themed world seemed funnier than the one before. We found the same. You look at a harbour, then you notice the minifigure who has just dropped something into the water, and then you spend another five minutes looking for the next joke.
The Star Wars room
The darkest room in the museum is also the one where we spent the longest. Its centrepiece is a long, lit glass wall that is meant to hold every LEGO Star Wars minifigure ever released, sorted by year, starting in 1999, the year the theme launched.
The minifigure timeline, from 1999 onwards. The early years fit on a few rows; later years need whole panels.
It is a lovely way to show a theme's history. The 1999 block is small and almost modest, with the first Jedi and the first battle droids. By the time you reach the 2010s the years take up whole panels, and you can watch the faces, prints and accessories get more detailed year by year. Andrea found her favourite figures within a minute. I needed rather longer.
Below the wall runs a lit diorama strip with snow battles and desert scenes. Next to it, on dark shelves, stands the big Ultimate Collector Series AT-AT, set 75313, with a gingerbread AT-AT beside it for scale and two Snowspeeders on the shelf below. Below them stands a cut-away Death Star, round as a plate, full of tiny rooms, with its green superlaser firing out of the side.
The Star Wars room: the minifigure wall on the left, the AT-AT and the Death Star on the right.
The room holds more than our photos show. According to the museum and other visitors there are Ewoks in a forest, more figures living in caves on a lower level, and a battle between Gungans and the battle droids from Episode I. Look low as well as high.
Hogwarts in microscale
The model that stopped us longest outside the Star Wars room was a microscale Hogwarts that looks as if it covers half a table. Its sign explains it: based on the official LEGO Hogwarts Castle 71043, the designer Playwell Bricks drew up an extension covering the whole grounds of the school. The model has 25,398 pieces and 96 microfigures, and took 72 hours to build. It is on loan to the museum.
Hogwarts, extended to the whole school grounds. Note the little boats crossing the lake in front.
What I love about it is that it does not try to be bigger than the official set; it tries to be more complete. The greenhouses are there, the courtyards are there, and the boats of first-years are still crossing the lake at the front.
A stadium, a tower and a cathedral
Several of the large models are builders' own creations rather than layouts by the museum team. The museum has a community area for such models, and its contact page says that area is currently full, which tells you something about how popular it is.
The one every football fan will recognise immediately is Dortmund's Signal Iduna Park, with its yellow pylons, the steep stands, the roof and a full match on the pitch.
Signal Iduna Park, complete with yellow pylons, a full crowd and a car park outside.
On the opposite end of the style spectrum is a cyberpunk tower rising from an offshore platform: neon signs, a skull hologram, stacked housing modules, steel girders and small boats at its base, all lit from within.
The cyberpunk tower: an offshore city built straight up.
And then the gothic cathedral, all in grey, with pointed arches, rows of pinnacles and one tower that climbs well over the heads of the people looking at it. A tree in front and a small square with benches give it scale.
The cathedral, with a city and a freight train next to it and the shop shelves behind.
Nearby there is also a Ninjago-style city, layered and colourful, and a sci-fi portal diorama that looks like nothing else in the building: glowing pink portals, alien plants, tubes and machinery.
The portal diorama: pink portals and an alien jungle.
The Wild West and the pirates
The Wild West is, according to the museum, its second-largest world. It has a saloon, a church, a gun shop and a bank, a covered wagon, a windmill and a canyon of layered orange rock with a mine tunnel in it. The museum mentions programmed scenes, minifigure shootouts included.
Guns, Bank, Saloon: everything a Wild West town needs, under a canyon of orange rock.
The pirate world is set in the Caribbean and sits under a painted sky. A white fortress stands on its rock in the middle of the bay, a lighthouse marks the harbour, small rowing boats are out on the water, and a big ship with red and white striped sails is heading straight for it all. According to the museum the world also has a harbour town, two ships and a volcano with light effects.
The pirate bay. The water is built from transparent plates, which catches the light beautifully.
The city
The LEGO City is the museum's largest world, and the museum says it is still growing. It is the one Bob Brickman's channel has documented for years, and seeing it for real is a different experience from seeing it on a screen. A harbour with a sailing ship at the quay, a market along the waterfront, rows of tall townhouses, a suspension bridge, a windmill and brick-built mountains in the distance, all under a painted sky.
The harbour of the LEGO city, with the suspension bridge on the right.
Elsewhere in the city there is a railway station and a market, a square with a café, and a forest railway, and the trains actually run. The museum also lists an ancient Rome built around the Forum Romanum as its newest world, and a Viking landscape. Exhibits change over time, so what you see may differ from what we saw.
The shop
Every good museum ends in a shop, and this one is a real temptation. The shelves hold current sets, from Star Wars helmets to Jurassic World, Harry Potter, Indiana Jones, The Legend of Zelda and BrickHeadz, plus the museum's own Brick Buddies.
The shop. More than one of these boxes was on our wish list.
For builders the best part is the boxes of loose parts sold by weight: the sign said €6 per 100 g when we were there, and you pick the parts yourself. A few practical notes from the museum itself: the shop sells only on site, stock and prices are only available in person, not by phone or email, and the shop is closed on some museum days (marked on the opening-day list). The museum also buys LEGO sets; offers go by email with a set list and photos.
Practical information (as of October 2026)
- Address: Ellmaierstraße 18, 83022 Rosenheim, Germany.
- Opening days: not every day. The museum publishes its opening days about 120 days in advance, mostly weekends and some weekdays in the school holidays. The days published as of October 2026 run from 19 December 2026 to 13 February 2027, Saturdays and selected weekdays 11:00–17:00, Sundays 10:30–14:00 (shop closed on Sundays). Always check the ticket page before you go.
- Admission: €8 standard price. Children under 1.20 m and wheelchair users go free. Children under 13 only with an adult.
- Tickets: book online for a time slot. On busy days entry is only guaranteed with a booked ticket. You can enter up to 30 minutes after your slot starts; if you arrive early, you can browse the shop.
- Time needed: about an hour according to the museum, plus the shop. We took longer.
- Accessibility: wheelchair accessible on the lower floor only. No pets.
- By train: Rosenheim Hauptbahnhof is about 20 minutes on foot, with regional and long-distance trains including Railjet and EuroCity connections from Austria.
- By bus: the stops Ellmaierstraße and Klinikum are under two minutes away, served by city bus line 6 and several regional lines.
- By car: the museum's own free car park is small and usually full. Nearby short-stay zones are partly free for up to three hours; the museum recommends car park P5 Loretowiese, €2 for up to five hours and under five minutes' walk. During the Rosenheimer Herbstfest (late August to mid-September) parking is very tight and public transport is the better choice.
- By bike: bike parking in front of the entrance; no e-bike charging.
What other visitors say
We were far from the first to fall for it. Ich spring im Dreieck, a family blog, wrote after its visit that the details and hidden jokes are "simply brilliant", and the family's reactions ranged from "Wahnsinn!" to "voll cool". It highlights the Star Wars section and the hidden details, and gives one practical warning: capacity is limited, so book ahead. The museum is listed on Tripadvisor and among the sights of the regional tourism office Chiemsee-Alpenland Tourismus. We could not read an overall rating on Google Maps or Tripadvisor while writing, so we will not quote one.
Why it is worth the trip
Because it is made with love, and you can feel it in every room. It is not a brand experience or a theme park. It is two builders and their community showing what they have built, in rooms where you can stand right in front of the models and find the next joke. The Star Wars timeline alone is worth the ticket for any collector, the city is a pleasure for anyone who has ever built one, and the community models, from Hogwarts to the cathedral, show how much talent there is in the fan scene.
If you are anywhere near Rosenheim, or on the way to the Alps or Austria, book a slot. Plan an hour and a half, bring some money for the bulk parts, and look closely. Thank you to everyone at the museum for a wonderful afternoon, and thank you, Andrea, for once again waiting while I took "just one more" photo.
The details
| What | Bob Brickman & Brickstory Museum, a LEGO® fan museum of about 350 m² |
| When we went | Friday, 23 October 2026 |
| Where | Ellmaierstraße 18, 83022 Rosenheim, Germany |
| Admission | €8; under 1.20 m and wheelchair users free (as of October 2026) |
| Opening days | published about 120 days ahead; currently 19 December 2026 to 13 February 2027 |
| Bulk parts | €6 per 100 g, pick your own (sign in the shop, 23 October 2026) |
| Website | bobstory.de |
Sources
- Bob Brickman und Brickstory Museum: home page and English page
- Bob Brickman und Brickstory Museum: tickets and opening days
- Bob Brickman und Brickstory Museum: getting there
- Bob Brickman und Brickstory Museum: contact and FAQ
- Ich spring im Dreieck: Geniale Legoausstellung im Bob Brickman & Brickstory Museum in Rosenheim
- Chiemsee-Alpenland Tourismus: Lego Museum Rosenheim
- Tripadvisor: Bob Brickman & Brickstory Museum
- LepinBoard: Museum von Brickstory und Bob Brickman in Rosenheim
Prices, opening days and directions are as published by the museum in October 2026; the bulk-parts price is as shown on the sign in the shop on 23 October 2026. All photographs are my own, taken on 23 October 2026; faces of other visitors and a number plate have been blurred. The models belong to the museum and to their builders. LEGO® is a trademark of the LEGO Group of companies. The LEGO Group does not sponsor, authorise or endorse this application.