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The Creation Museum opened in 2007 and its counterpart, The Ark Encounter, opened in 2016. About 600 full-time workers are employed at Answers in Genesis and the two attractions.
Ark Encounter was designated the "Sight of the Week" for January 1–7, 2018, by Doug Kirby's RoadsideAmerica.com. [17] The site gave Ark Encounter its highest rating ("The Best"), noting, "the Ark is an attraction that should be visited – if only because it's unlikely that you'll ever visit anything else like it."
A view of the 510-foot-long replica of Noah's Ark at Ark Encounter in Williamstown, Ky., on Friday, Sept. 30, 2022. Answers in Genesis has created two attractions with Ark Encounter and the ...
Plans for the museum date back to 1996. [18] Ark Encounter is a Christian theme park that opened in Grant County, Kentucky on July 7, 2016. [19] The centerpiece of the park is a full-scale model of Noah's Ark from the Genesis flood narrative in the Bible which is 510 feet (160 m) long, 85 feet (26 m) wide, and 81 feet (25 m) high. [19]
The immersive Truth Traveler attraction also will be home to a massive planetarium.
Noah's Ark at the Ark Encounter in Kentucky. Replicas of portions of the ark at the Creation Museum (Petersburg, Kentucky) and in a warehouse nearby. [15] Partial replica built for filming the 2014 movie Noah (Oyster Bay, Long Island) [16] God's Ark of Safety, partially built. On a hilltop along Interstate 68 in Frostburg, Maryland.
In 2017, AiG reported that in the year since its other attraction, the Ark Encounter, opened, the Creation Museum saw over 800,000 visitors, nearly triple the annual average of 300,000 visitors. [35] In April 2021, the Creation Museum and Ark Encounter welcomed their 10 millionth visitor altogether. [36]
The building contains the Creation Education Museum, which features exhibits displaying the arguments for and against creationism and intelligent design, as well as an exploration of the relationship between science and the Bible. The building also houses several areas with interactive tour stations and activities focused on hands-on science.