'Gulliver's Travels' Exhibit To Turn Part Of Midtown Into Lilliput

MIDTOWN, NY — Lilliput is coming to Midtown.

An exhibit inspired by the novel Gulliver's Travels will open in a Times Square venue on April 6.

The novel by Jonathan Swift tells the story of Gulliver, who travels to different islands around the globe inhabited by tiny people, giants and talking horses, among others.

Gulliver's Gate — inspired by the island inhabited by tiny people — comprises six miniature cities with architecture from New York City, Asia, the Middle East, Russia, Latin America and Europe.

However, the cities are not exact replicas of the original ones.

"Our Roosevelt Island cable car crosses Manhattan, not the East River," the exhibit's website says.

"It's okay. We made our own rules about geography here."

The exhibit, located at 216 West 44th Street, will be on display until the end of the year with discounted entry from April 6 to May 9.

The first visitors will get a chance to have their bodies scanned and a replica of themselves placed in the exhibit, which will give them citizenship and even a passport from Lilliput. The display will include 1,000 trains, 10,000 cars and and planes that will actually fly.

In addition, there will be replicas of famed landmarks such as the Hoover Dam, the Parthenon, the Colosseum, the Pyramids, the Panama Canal and the Great Wall of China.

Expected to attract more than a million visitors yearly, the exhibit will expand over time.

The exhibit will be open everyday between 10 a.m. and 9 p.m. You can buy your tickets and learn more about it here.

Images courtesy of Gulliver's Gate