The 2 nd floor also includes another paid experience, Washington Revelations. Make a Meme table & your creations will be displayed on panorama screens.Explore the current, most commonly searched keywords and most shared verses by country or globally.

Video recording station where you can share your personal testimony of how the Bible has impacted you.Includes live guest engagement through exhibits and a panoramic time-lapse of Jerusalem.Oversized, curved screens surround you in a 360* view of real-time, live feeds from the web and people, media, & places around the world, showing the Bible’s up-to-the-minute impact.The Bible Now– Older kids & teens will really appreciate this high tech, fast-moving exhibit. Talks about Jews & Christians smuggling Bibles into a Cold War Soviet Union. Has a picture of a ‘scripture balloon’ that sends gospels into North Korean air space with gospel tracts. The Nazis use of sacred, parchment Torah scrolls as shoe liners, book covers & wallets. It discusses the Nazi, 1960s/ 70s China, & various social movement burnings (Today China allows Bibles & is a leading Bible producer). The ‘Banned & Burned’ exhibit discusses conflicts throughout history where the Bible was viewed as a threat & attacked, outlawed & banned.Music studio-like sound ‘booth’ with playlists of songs with biblical lyrics.‘Magic mirror’ to design a biblical-inspired t shirt look.Station where you can type in your name & birth date and it prints a bookmark with how many days, months & years you were born after the birth of Jesus.Older kids will especially like this exhibit. There are also lounge areas on each main floor for teens to rest, too.īible in the World– Highly interactive, high tech exhibit on culture & society. One parent can stay with the littles in the kid’s area while the other makes quick trips to highlights that are important to them, then swap. However, if you have a gaggle of toddlers, go through the highlights as long as you can, and either try to stick with the more interactive sections, or do a parent swap. If they’re old enough to read, they’ll end up reading and learning something, though. It’s okay for kids to be bored and something many aren’t skilled in, today, but it’s something you should be aware of before, since they won’t be actively entertained in a number of exhibits. We take our kids to all kinds of places, even if they’re bored for awhile and they always end up learning interesting things along the way. However, kids may be a bit bored with all of the ‘old books’ and ancient artifacts. Many exhibits are high tech, immersive & really engaging. The movies & interactive experiences are relatively short, interesting and well-paced. But, it’s well worth seeing for Christians, Jews, and anyone interested in the Bible, its history, or the priceless, ancient artifacts here.įor little ones, they have a play room with entertaining arcade/ carnival-type games. Christians & Jews will think ‘not enough’ & seculars will say ‘too much’. They tip-toe a line that tries to be unbiased & non-affiliated. An extremely broad range of conflicting expectations & criticisms comes with the territory of a site such as this. My family & I are Christians, but followers & scholars of multiple faiths visit the museum. The more you’ve studied the Bible or biblical history, the more you’ll appreciate it. They also partner with Israel Antiquities & the Vatican to show rarely seen world treasures. They consulted with leading biblical scholars throughout the world. Top notch, choosing the best for their museum & exhibit design and it absolutely shows. They used award winning, Oscar-nominated tech & exhibit designers who create for Universal Studios, Cirque du Soleil, Disney, Steven Spielberg, the Smithsonians, the Met, Presidential libraries, & more. The tech is advanced & engaging at a level you normally only see at top theme parks. Everything is world-class from their movies to their exhibits to their architecture- beautifully, thoughtfully, extremely well done. But that’s not to say it’s boring or bland.

The bible discovery museum