Creation Museum passes 100,000 mark

PETERSBURG,Ky-Open for less than two months,the Creation Museum just outside of Cincinnati received its 100,000th visitor July 21 and is on pace to break its own projection for first-year attendance.The high-tech,$27 million, 60,000-square-foot museum and planetarium both of which present a scientific view of the biblical creation account,opened Memorial Day weekend to large crowds and hasn't slowed much since.Initial projections by museum officials were for attendance to be in the range of 250,000 this year.But that may be surpassed.Attendance this summer has been so impressive that the museum has had extended hours a number of times,particularly on weekends and holidays. Located in Petersburg,Ky.,just south of Cincinnati,the museum is scheduled to have extended hours Labor Day weekend,Sept. 1-3.In addition,museum officials are asking the county to allow them to add 600 spaces to the parking lot.The Farner family of Buffalo,N.Y.,passed the 100,000 mark."We are delighted the Creation Museum has generated such interest,but I'm not surprised,"Tom Caradonio,president and CEO of the Northern Kentucky Convention and Visitors Bureau,said in a statement."Many religious-meeting partners told us early on they were interested in taking groups there."The museum features more than 50 educational videos, as well as animatronic dinosaurs and a special effects theater,and is a product of the apologetics ministry Answers in Genesis.
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