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About the Museum

A new national public museum devoted to the history, culture, and people of the land of the Bible.

The Concept

The Museum of Biblical Archaeology will be a new national public museum devoted to the history, culture, and people of the land of the Bible. The state-of-the-art facility will include Ancient Near Eastern artifacts, important archaeological discoveries, and interactive learning stations.

The Collection

The collection will consist of pottery, coins, jewelry, manuscripts, idols, weapons, and dozens of other types of archaeological relics. It will represent all relevant Biblical eras, dating from ca. 4,500 BC to ca. 600 AD.

The Team

Our organization includes many of today's leading Biblical archaeologists and scholars, in addition to well-known statesmen and stateswomen. The Advisory Board contains dig directors from prominent excavation sites, respected academic specialists, business leaders, and other dignitaries necessary for the project's success.

The Museum

A premium museum experience

The Facility

The facility will offer guests a premium museum experience, with a presentation theatre, lab rooms, a comprehensive research library, and a glass-walled curator's center for public viewing. It will also include interactive and virtual educational components, as well as re-created period structures such as Bedouin tent dwellings, an olive oil press, various Biblical-era houses, an ancient synagogue, agricultural machinery, and a Galilean fishing boat.

Through an exacting replication process, the facility will also offer an opportunity to enjoy well-known monumental archaeological discoveries currently housed in other museums throughout the world. Plans also call for visiting guest lectures, symposiums, an internship program, a bookstore and gift shop, and a children's Archaeology Explorer's Club.

On Loan

Traveling Exhibitions

Some of the world's most exciting exhibitions

Due in part to the professional and academic standing of our Advisory Board, the museum will host some of the world's most celebrated mobile exhibitions — bringing rare and remarkable discoveries within reach of an American audience.

Bring to Life

Interactive — educational — entertaining — engaging — provocative

Features all woven together to bring life and historical context to the great Biblical stories, personalities, and places. The Museum of Biblical Archaeology will enable tens of thousands of annual visitors to experience the wonders of the Holy Land — without leaving American soil.

It will be a universal center for cultural and educational programming — the only museum of its kind in all of America — where the civilizations of the Ancient Near East are brought to life from the dawn of recorded history to the early Christian era. An interactive time capsule for visitors of all ages and beliefs to tour the galleries, discovering the wonders of ancient cultures and their fascinating interrelationships: a confluence of the rich historical past with an awe-inspiring, modern-day presentation of entertaining appeal.

Full Scale

Lifesize Reconstruction

A virtual walk through time

Museum galleries will display authentic period structures literally created by painstaking reconstruction in genuine size and scope. Actual full-size dwellings, for example, will be presented in sequential chronological order so that a visitor will experience a virtual walk through time.

Unifying Mission

Our Purpose

Promoting peace and unity

The museum will promote peace and unity by bringing together divergent peoples of the world seeking to understand and embrace the cultural heritage of the Middle East. By design, it will nurture the advancement of international cooperation within the context of a harmonious environment.

Be Part of It

Bring the ancient world to life

Join the scholars, supporters, and visionaries building a world-class home for the archaeology of the Bible.

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