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The Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw will break ground June 26.
The $58 million museum is set to open between 2009 and 2010. It will showcase the 1,000-year history of Polish Jews, who comprised 10 percent of the country’s population before the Holocaust — more than in any other European nation.
The museum, which has a board of international experts, will focus on how Jews lived together with Poles for centuries, but will also confront head-on the subject of anti-Semitism.
The groundbreaking will include the signing of a construction act to be sealed in a glass-topped space below the ground, which will also hold fragments of the buildings and streets that were destroyed by the Nazis during the1943 Ghetto Uprising.
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Category: Museums
From news.com.au:
Ken Ham has gone from teaching science in Queensland to becoming a modern-day religious missionary determined to build a rallying point for the world’s Christians.
Mr Ham is the founder of the world’s first Creation Museum.
It challenges evolutionary theory by arguing the world is only 6000 years old, created in six days by God, and dinosaurs walked the planet alongside humans.
The Biblical tourist attraction, located in Petersburg, Kentucky, attracted 4000 visitors when it opened on Monday.
It has a Garden of Eden, dinosaurs on Noah’s Ark and preaches the message of salvation.
“So far it has exceeded our expectations,” Mr Ham, 55, said.
He predicts the museum could generate about 250,000 visitors a year.
The thrust of the museum can be summed up by one of its most popular exhibits - two animatronic children frolicking near a waterfall with two animatronic Tyrannosaurus Rex.
“It makes a big, bold statement that people and dinosaurs lived at the same time and we don’t believe in evolution or millions of years,” Mr Ham said.
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