Friday, May 05, 2000
Property sale allows ministry to start museum
By Jim Hannah
The Cincinnati Enquirer
HEBRON — Boone County is one step closer to getting a creationism museum. The ministry that proposed the project closed a deal on Thursday to buy 47 acres just west of Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport along Interstate 275.
Answers in Genesis, an evangelical Christian ministry, has had an option to buy the land near Hebron for two years. The ministry decided to move forward with the purchase after it won a lengthy zoning battle in March, said Mike Zovath, general manager of the ministry.
The group hopes to break ground on the $5 million to $8 million complex next March and open the museum's doors by the summer of 2002. Officials said they were close to announcing the hiring of a major Cincinnati architectural firm to be the museum's lead architects.
The proposed 50,000-square-foot complex will house the Creation Museum and Family Discovery Center along with the ministry's headquarters. The group said $7 million worth of items that will be used as museum exhibits are being stored in three warehouses.
Officials say the museum will be filled with the kinds of exhibits that are in natural history museums, such as dinosaur replicas, fossils and a DNA exhibit. But they will be presented as a walk-through history of the world from a Biblical perspective.
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