Founder Anticipates Creation Museum's Spring '07 Opening With Excitement
by Allie Martin
May 1, 2006
(AgapePress) - - Progress is being made on a facility that will house exhibits designed to proclaim the authority and accuracy of the Bible from Genesis to Revelation. The Creation Museum, located near the Cincinnati International Airport in northern Kentucky, is well under way; and later this month, the museum will be unveiling its large and uniquely designed bookstore. The Creation Museum is a project of Answers in Genesis, a ministry that helps Christians become equipped to defend the biblical account of creation. The 50,000-square-foot museum will feature exhibits and other teaching tools that will show visitors how science confirms biblical history.
Answers in Genesis president Ken Ham says the project is on target for its opening next April, and the opening of its 3,000-square-foot bookstore May 20. The bookstore is "done up as a medieval castle inside, with a theme of 'Dragons and Dinosaurs,'" he says. Replicas of those mighty creatures will be incorporated into the store's design," Ham notes, along with "a big sculpture of St. George and the Dragon."
And even the outside of the store will reflect the theme, the Creation Museum's founder points out. "It has a big, animatronic pterodactyl above a cave that's an entrance into the bookstore," he says. "The lobby is almost complete."
According to Ham, the museum is already receiving worldwide attention. "The international press are getting very, very interested in this," he says, "and it's going to be not just a national event here in America. It's going to be an international event when it opens in April 2007."
The Creation Museum project has a price-tag of $25 million, and Ham says he intends for the facility to open debt free. More than $20 million has been raised for the project so far.
Allie Martin, a regular contributor to AgapePress, is a reporter for American Family Radio News, which can be heard online.
