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museumoftheBible.org<br />
OPENING<br />
2017<br />
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VISION<br />
MUSEUM OF THE BIBLE EXISTS TO INVITE ALL<br />
PEOPLE TO ENGAGE WITH THE BIBLE<br />
THROUGH: A MUSEUM CURRENTLY UNDER<br />
CONSTRUCTION IN WASHINGTON, D.C.,<br />
RESEARCH, TRAVELING EXHIBITS, AND<br />
EDUCATION.<br />
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“The Bible is the best-selling, most-translated book of all time and is<br />
arguably history’s most significant piece of literature. It has had an<br />
unquestionable influence on science, education, democracy, arts and<br />
society. This book has also profoundly impacted lives across the ages,<br />
including my own.”<br />
— Steve Green<br />
Chairman of the Board, Museum of the Bible<br />
THE COLLECTION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 - 5<br />
THE MUSEUM. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 - 15<br />
RESEARCH. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 - 19<br />
TRAVELING EXHIBITS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 -23<br />
EDUCATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 - 26<br />
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THE MUSEUM<br />
COLLECTION<br />
Six years and more than<br />
40,000 items later, Museum of<br />
the Bible’s collection includes<br />
some of the rarest and most<br />
significant biblical texts and<br />
artifacts ever found.<br />
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Highlights of the collection include Dead Sea Scroll<br />
fragments, biblical papyri and manuscripts, Torah<br />
scrolls, and rare printed Bibles.<br />
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THE<br />
MUSEUM<br />
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MUSEUM OF THE BIBLE,<br />
WASHINGTON, D.C.<br />
Our museum, opening in the fall of 2017, will be housed<br />
in a 430,000-square-foot building in the heart of<br />
Washington, D.C., just steps from the National Mall and<br />
the U.S. Capitol. Displaying artifacts from the collection,<br />
the museum will share the Bible’s impact, history<br />
and narrative through a series of high-tech exhibits,<br />
immersive settings, and interactive experiences –<br />
designed for guests of all ages, walks of life, and faith<br />
backgrounds to engage with the Bible.<br />
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THE BIBLE’S IMPACT ON THE WORLD<br />
The Impact Floor exhibits will express the incredible depth of the Bible’s<br />
immense influence – not only on the world’s cultures and many aspects<br />
of civilization, but also on the lives of individuals. Examples of topics to<br />
be covered are the Bible’s influence on the arts, science, government,<br />
education, family, pop culture and American history.<br />
This floor will also include a special “fly board” theater enabling guests<br />
to virtually fly overseas, through paintings, and into key monuments and<br />
buildings (like the U.S. Capitol and Lincoln Memorial) to learn about the<br />
Bible’s presence in Washington, D.C.
IMPACT ON ART<br />
IMPACT ON SCIENCE<br />
IMPACT ON GOVERNMENT<br />
FLYBOARD RIDE
THE NARRATIVE OF THE BIBLE<br />
This area of the museum will encompass 50,000 square feet and be<br />
dedicated to telling the stories of the Bible. It will connect 21st century<br />
audiences to the Bible by taking guests on a journey inside its stories and<br />
inviting them to be a part of the story.<br />
The floor will include three primary areas:<br />
1. THE JEWISH BIBLE is an immersive walk-through of the narrative of<br />
the Hebrew scriptures, tracing themes of family and home.<br />
2. THE WORLD OF JESUS OF NAZARETH will enable guests to visit a<br />
first-century village with docents portraying various individuals in that<br />
society, period environments, and media.<br />
3. THE NEW TESTAMENT THEATER will provide a four-dimensional<br />
experience of the New Testament as discovered by Luke.<br />
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THE JEWISH BIBLE<br />
THE WORLD OF JESUS OF NAZARETH<br />
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THE NEW TESTAMENT THEATER
THE TORAH ROOM<br />
THE HISTORY FLOOR<br />
This floor features many of the greatest discoveries associated with the<br />
biblical text, including some of the earliest known writings, which date to<br />
the time traditionally associated with Abraham. Artifacts include Dead Sea<br />
Scroll fragments, some of the earliest known New Testament writings,<br />
numerous historical manuscripts, and first-edition Bibles.<br />
We will be using multi-touch interactive tables to invite visitors to explore<br />
the game-changing moments in the Bible’s story to bring the texts alive<br />
and allow for deeper exploration of the stories of our primary artifacts.
This one-of-a-kind museum will also feature a<br />
unique personal navigation system and house a:<br />
• State-of-the-art Conference Hall with<br />
views of the Capitol<br />
• Performing Arts Center<br />
• Restaurant “The Foods of the Bible”<br />
• Children’s Gallery<br />
• Rooftop Biblical Garden<br />
• Additional galleries for our<br />
partner institutions such as<br />
the Israel Antiquities Authority<br />
DIGITAL DOCENT<br />
Guests configure their<br />
museum experience using a<br />
digital docent. This device<br />
will be carried by all guests<br />
and is included with their<br />
museum admission.<br />
THEATER<br />
DIGITAL MAPPING
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ROOFTOP STRUCTURE<br />
INSPIRED BY NOAH’S ARK
“<br />
IT TAKES A WORLD-CLASS TEAM TO<br />
BUILD A WORLD-CLASS MUSEUM. WE’VE<br />
ASSEMBLED JUST THAT: THE BEST<br />
IN ARCHITECTURAL, INTERIOR AND<br />
ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN TO PROVIDE<br />
MUSEUM OF THE BIBLE GUESTS WITH<br />
AN EXPERIENCE THAT IS UNIQUE,<br />
INNOVATIVE, CUSTOMIZABLE TO EACH<br />
VISITOR’S LEVEL OF INTEREST, AND MOST<br />
OF ALL MEMORABLE.<br />
”<br />
– Cary Summers, President, Museum of the Bible
RESEARCH<br />
Through Museum of the Bible Scholars Initiative, we pioneer<br />
groundbreaking research and raise up the next generation of<br />
biblical scholars.<br />
Formed in the summer of 2010, the Scholars Initiative enables the world’s<br />
leading textual scholars to research and produce scholarship on artifacts<br />
and manuscripts in our collection while mentoring students. The program<br />
includes more than 60 institutions and over 100 scholars in six countries.<br />
The Initiative has already yielded new<br />
discoveries of international acclaim and<br />
inspired students to pursue advanced<br />
degrees in biblical studies.<br />
World’s oldest known Jewish<br />
prayer book (~1200 years old)
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1. A fragment of Genesis from the Dead Sea<br />
Scrolls (~2100 years old)<br />
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CODEX CLIMACI RESCRIPTUS (CCR):<br />
2. The CCR contains a popular Christian text<br />
from the early Middle Ages, “The Ladder<br />
of Divine Ascent,” in Syriac translation. Faintly visible beneath the black ink here<br />
is a copy of the Gospels, erased over 1,000 years ago when the parchment was<br />
reused.<br />
3. In 2010, multi-spectral imaging brought this erased text back to light with colorful<br />
clarity so scholars could study the older layer in better detail. This page contains<br />
Matthew’s account of the Last Supper, translated into a variety of Western<br />
Aramaic, very close to the dialect that Jesus and his early followers spoke.
“<br />
IF YOU PLACE A REAL OBJECT,<br />
2,000 YEARS OLD, IN FRONT OF<br />
AN 18-YEAR-OLD AND START TO<br />
DISCUSS ITS SIGNIFICANCE FOR OUR<br />
UNDERSTANDING OF A BIT OF THE<br />
BIBLE, THAT CAN BE A MOMENT THAT<br />
LIGHTS UP A LIFE!<br />
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– Dr. Gordon Campbell<br />
Professor of Renaissance Studies, University of Leicester, UK
TRAVELING<br />
EXHIBITS<br />
Reaching more than half a million people to date, our exhibits have<br />
traveled across the country and around the world. We have brought the<br />
story of the Bible to Oklahoma City, Atlanta, Charlotte, Colorado Springs,<br />
Springfield (MO), the Greater Los Angeles area, Vatican City, Jerusalem,<br />
Israel, Havana, Cuba, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and numerous colleges and<br />
universities.<br />
Museum of the Bible’s first traveling exhibit, then named Passages,<br />
launched on May 16, 2011. Featuring approximately 400 top-tier items<br />
from the Museum Collection, it invites guests to engage with the Bible<br />
through contextual settings such as an ancient Jewish synagogue, the<br />
Jerusalem chamber at Westminster Abbey, and Israel’s Qumran caves.<br />
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VERBUM DOMINI<br />
Museum of the Bible’s first international traveling<br />
exhibit, Verbum Domini, launched in Vatican City<br />
in 2012. Due to the exhibit’s popularity, the exhibit<br />
returned to St. Peter’s Square in 2014 with<br />
Verbum Domini II.<br />
THE BOOK OF BOOKS<br />
Sharing the story of the Jewish roots of<br />
Christianity, The Book of Books exhibit was on<br />
display at the Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem<br />
from October 2013 through October 2014.<br />
LA BIBLIA<br />
La Biblia, The Way of God in the Way of Man, an<br />
exhibit at the cathedral of Havana, Cuba, was on<br />
display for a three-week period in 2014.<br />
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“<br />
THIS IS A HISTORIC ACHIEVEMENT<br />
FOR BOTH THE COLLECTION AND THE<br />
CUBAN PEOPLE WHO HAVE HAD LITTLE<br />
OPPORTUNITY TO ENCOUNTER SUCH<br />
ARTIFACTS ON THEIR OWN SOIL.<br />
”<br />
– Norman C. Conrad<br />
Curator of Americana and English Bibles
EDUCATION<br />
Museum of the Bible brings cutting-edge innovation to education by<br />
developing a high school Bible curriculum for students around the world.<br />
This four-year curriculum starts with the ninth grade and approaches the<br />
Bible as a text that is central to human civilization.<br />
Illuminating the Bible’s impact,<br />
narrative, and history, the<br />
curriculum uses augmented<br />
reality (AR) to enable students<br />
to experience 3D objects in a<br />
much more immersive way.<br />
A computer-generated virtual<br />
environment is formed that invites<br />
students to interact, making it<br />
easier for them to relate to what<br />
is being presented.
“ … the teachings of the Bible are so interwoven and entwined with<br />
our whole civic and social life that it would be literally – I do not<br />
mean figuratively, I mean literally – impossible for us to figure to<br />
ourselves what that life would be if these teachings were removed.”<br />
– President Theodore Roosevelt<br />
AUGMENTED REALITY<br />
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“<br />
IT’S A PROJECT, NOT JUST<br />
FOR OUR GENERATION,<br />
BUT FOR GENERATIONS AND<br />
CENTURIES TO COME.<br />
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– Mike King<br />
President, Youthfront
STATIONS SHOW PERSONAL<br />
STORIES OF THOSE<br />
IMPACTED BY THE BIBLE.<br />
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FROM ANCIENT TIMES<br />
TO THE DIGITAL AGE,<br />
ACROSS THE NATION<br />
AND AROUND THE GLOBE,<br />
FROM THE UNIVERSITY<br />
LECTURE HALL TO<br />
THE HIGH SCHOOL<br />
CLASSROOM, THE BIBLE<br />
HAS BEEN, AND STILL IS,<br />
MAKING AN IMPACT.<br />
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