(RNS) Planners of a Bible museum in Washington closed a $50 million deal Thursday on a building two blocks from the National Mall.
The Museum of the Bible, a nonprofit group planning the
still-to-be-named museum, announced it will be housed at 300 D Street SW
in what is now the Washington Design Center, a series of showrooms of
luxury home furnishings.
“Our intent is for this museum to showcase both the Old and New
Testaments, arguably the world’s most significant pieces of literature,
through a non-sectarian, scholarly approach that makes the history,
scholarship and impact of the Bible on virtually every facet of society
accessible to everyone,” said Mark DeMoss, a member of the Bible
museum's board.
The museum, which will likely open in 2016, will highlight the
collection of the billionaire Green family of Oklahoma. That collection
features more than 55,000 items including biblical artifacts ranging
from Dead Sea Scrolls to Torah scrolls that survived the Holocaust.
Museum officials expect to also showcase other prominent collections
from across the globe.
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