The Museum of the Bible recently opened in Washington, D.C. packed with screens and interactive exhibits. The 430,000-square-foot building was designed by SmithGroup JJR and cost a total of $500 million. Formerly a refrigerated warehouse, this space has been turned into quite an extravaganza. The museum, hailed by some as a religious indoor amusement park, boasts 12 different movie theaters, one 140-foot-long LED screen, and several immersive exhibits simulating historic, biblical environments.
Visitors will also experience Morgan Freeman's voice reading scripture, a computer animated film recounting the New Testament, and the parting of the Red Sea via a walkthrough light installation (pictured above). While this space is branded for social media, the museum also houses some quieter galleries focused on the Bible’s influence on the United States.
Steve Green, president of Hobby Lobby and chair of the board for the Museum of the Bible, explains the museum's motivations are to engage people in the Bible's story in a relevant, attention grabbing way. If appearing boring was the museum's worst fear it seems they have nothing to worry about.
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just in case you were wondering how rich people spend their tax cuts: on opiates for the working class
On the other hand, if Morgan Freeman is voicing as God, then money well spent.
Mediocre architecture btw
What no dinosaurs? Pass.
This article at Politico is illuminating:
https://www.politico.com/magaz...
More on Green:
"The CEO of the Hobby Lobby craft-store chain, Steve Green, founded and funded the Museum of the Bible, and his family’s collection of artifacts—which recently made news when Hobby Lobby was forced to forfeit thousands of cuneiform texts from Iraq, and pay a $3 million fine for illicit importation—will make up a substantial part of the museum’s holdings. Green and his family are some of the country’s most prominent evangelicals, notable for their successful Supreme Court case challenging Obamacare’s contraception mandate in 2015."
And let us note that it contains Elvis Presley’s personal Bible.
why go to so much trouble for a bad fiction book.
I think it's a typo. Should have been gun
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