Where is the ark in kentucky
The Ark Encounter - Kentucky
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good morning patrick kanewski i'm the
director of operations at the arkan
counter
this arc that you see here is a direct
representation
of the biblical account of noah and the
flood
so what we've done here is we've taken
the true dimensions of the bible in
genesis
and we've replicated a full-sized ark
but in 2004 even
the first thoughts about doing an ark
replica
was thought about and it just kept
moving up on the to-do list
and then eventually broke ground in the
summer
of 2014 and then we opened the arkan
counter
in july of 2016. since that time we've
had
hundreds of thousands of people come
through here it's got rave reviews
people are very excited about this and
the first deck is really
an introduction to the ark it's our
shortest
deck is just to get people oriented to
the ark itself
how big the wood is and things of that
nature and some animal cages and some
information about
some of the animals the second deck is
really where the story starts
and the first exhibit that everyone sees
is
an exhibit called the pre-flood world
pre-flood society
which really sets up for the the guest
why was the ark built in the first place
it starts with
creation in this particular exhibit
and it goes through sin and the fall of
man and then how
society really degraded from there
and how it was so bad that god said hey
have a do-over basically and then noah
and his family are seen
in working scenes on deck 2 as well
feeding the animals
and also noah in his study
there's a library that's set up in there
there's a a wood shop a blacksmith shop
and then you know just different
exhibits like that and one of our main
features on deck 2
is the door and you may see the ramp
that's
behind me here that ramp goes to the
door
on deck 2 and there's a gospel
presentation there
we also every day on deck 2 have live
animals that we bring in from our zoo
bring those up on the elevator and get
them right into deck 2 so people can
actually see live animals on the ark
we have kangaroos and right now a couple
of the female kangaroos have joey's
in their pouch which is pretty neat we
have camels and donkeys and the
camels and donkeys we actually have
rides on those that
that people can take we also have uh
some uh farm animals like goats and
and smaller animals in a petting area
and those animals uh
various different combinations of those
animals come onto the ark
every day so that's really deck 2 and
then once the folks go up to deck 3
again that's another large it's a tall
deck
deck 2 being the tallest but deck 3 is a
large deck as well
and there's a lot of excellent museum
quality exhibits on deck three
the first thing that the guests will see
is noah's living quarters
so we've set up a living quarters for
noah and his wife
and then noah's sons and their wives so
the eight people their living quarters
there's a garden there's a kitchen a
dining area
an aviary things of that nature in a
living area
i also want to mention there's two two
movie areas two film areas
where uh on deck two in the stern
there's a noah's interview back in
noah's time there's a
uh an atheist lady from a newspaper a
local newspaper
there in noah's time and she interviews
noah and then that
the sequel to that movie is on deck
three where the same actors
are actually in modern day and they're
uh they're interviewing a guy named noah
who works here
at the ark encounter so that's uh it's
really a powerful presentation
on deck 2 and deck 3 in our theaters and
then continuing around on deck 3
again the museum quality uh exhibits on
deck 3 are just
amazing there's a an exhibit about
the flood geology what the earth would
have looked like before and after the
flood
how dramatically the earth was changed
by the flood there's an exhibit on
the ice age there's an exhibit on
ancient man the tower of babel
and then finally we get to an exhibit
that
discusses and presents the the rainbow
it's called the rainbow covenant
which is really the promise that the god
made that the earth would not be
destroyed again
by by water by a flood and it talks
about the rainbow
and then another thing that we're very
proud of is that mr greene
and the hobby lobby group
has displayed a lot of their bible
artifacts
in a in an area that's called museum of
the bible
the museum of the bible is going to is
being constructed right now
in washington dc and that museum
has let us borrow some of their
artifacts and i the artifacts are going
to stay here
in 11 different display areas on deck
three it's really an awesome
awesome display of of the bible and then
finally the last exhibit that
folks will see on deck 3 is an exhibit
we call why the bible is true
and it's actually a walk through a
uh a storybook of three college students
and their travails uh they're in a class
about uh the bible and world religions
and just what exactly does their
professor
espouse in this class and they kind of
wrestle with what the professor's saying
and there's a whole story about these
three college students
as you wind through this uh this
storybook
and it's a very good bible gospel
presentation at the end
so that's really good and again we have
the zoo that's out back
we have a restaurant here also a 1500
seat
which is quite good and if you read
everything if the guests would read
all the all the exhibits
and if they would have something to eat
and if they would go to the zoo
it probably takes a good three four five
hours to go through the whole
park encounter as it is right now the
best way to
to get in touch with us is we have a lot
of websites
the answers in genesis website will also
take you to the creation museum
website and the ark encounter website
and you can get your tickets online if
you want on those websites
the website also has our phone numbers
that are available here in kentucky
you can call folks to make reservations
if you want to actually talk to a person
instead of doing it online again uh we
appreciate
you all uh watching this about the ark
encounter
and uh we'd like to see you here again
you'd be one of hundreds of thousands of
people that have come
and i just i think you'll be amazed when
you get here
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another feature that we have here that
is very popular
is we have overnights here on the ark so
youth groups
uh other groups can come here and and
sleep over on the ark instead of staying
out in town in a hotel or something
youth groups come here actually at night
right after we close
they bring their bedding into those
theaters i was telling you about
on deck two and three and they they bed
down
they put their things down there they go
on a scavenger hunt
that night when they get here they also
see a movie and have a snack
and then we usually bed them down around
11 30 or so at night
the next morning they get up they have
their own program
at the zoo their own private program at
the zoo they have breakfast at
mzar's kitchen at the restaurant and
then they stay on the ark
all day and that is quite reasonable
it's a regular ticket plus only 19
so if folks come here with a large group
uh youth group obviously you need to
have chaperones and things of that
nature but
they come with a group high school
junior high youth groups etc
school groups or church groups then they
can stay here on the ark overnight
instead of
staying out in a in a hotel good
question
right now i'm documenting some of the
terrible things that happened before the
flood
i need to warn my children
and their children after them what can
happen
if they do not follow the creators
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