Creationist Museum in Kentucky Has Grand Opening on Memorial Day

Answers in Genesis is a non-profit agency focused on educating the public on the origin of man according to the Bible. The group's president is Australian Ken Ham. Ken is a former exhibit director for Universal Studios in Florida.

Answers in Genesis has funded a new creationist museum just outside Cincinnati, Ohio, in Petersburg, Kentucky. The creationist museum's grand opening is May 28, 2007, on Memorial Day, reports The Columbus Dispatch. The museum is 60,000 square feet. The museum's website proclaims take a "walk through history".

The museum cost 27 million dollars. Three individuals donated one million dollars each for the museum. A family in Michigan gave one half million dollars for the museum's planetarium. Other fundraisers, including a golf scramble, have aided in raising capital for building the museum.

The grounds are decorated with dinosaur topiaries. The gate entrance features metal sculptures of dinosaurs. As visitors enter the Biblical-based museum, they meander through an exhibit replicating the Grand Canyon. The museum contains murals, computerized special effects, life-size people and dinosaur animatronics, a special effects theater, and a planetarium.

The Answers in Genesis museum attempts to explain the Biblical account of the creation of the world. The museum teaches that the world was created in six literal days. On the fifth and sixth day all of the world's creatures were created, according to the museum's exhibits.

Some of the exhibits include Noah and his ark, complete with dinosaurs. The Tree of Life climbs the two-story room where it's housed. Adam holds a lamb while he names all of the animals in the Garden of Eden exhibit. The Tree of Knowledge displays Eve handing an apple to Adam while a snake watches from the tree's branches. A Tower of Babel exhibit is also included to explain the world's different races and languages.