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Museum of the Bible set to open in D.C.

Museum of the Bible spokesman Jeremy Bur­ton, right, gives a preview tour of the museum to the Rev. Harry L. Thomas, a mu­sic festi­val di­rec­tor from Penn­syl­va­nia. The $500 million facility is scheduled to open this fall a couple of blocks from the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
Museum of the Bible spokesman Jeremy Bur­ton, right, gives a preview tour of the museum to the Rev. Harry L. Thomas, a mu­sic festi­val di­rec­tor from Penn­syl­va­nia. The $500 million facility is scheduled to open this fall a couple of blocks from the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Museum of the Bible spokesman Jeremy Bur­ton, right, gives a preview tour of the museum to the Rev. Harry L. Thomas, a mu­sic festi­val di­rec­tor from Penn­syl­va­nia. The $500 million facility is scheduled to open this fall a couple of blocks from the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

By Frank E. Lockwood, Arkansas Democrat-Gazzette 5 min read

WASH­ING­TON – Hun­dreds of work­ers are la­bor­ing fu­ri­ously to fin­ish the cap­i­tal’s lat­est ma­jor tourist at­trac­tion: a new build­ing de­voted to the world’s best-sell­ing book.

The half-bil­lion-dol­lar Mu­seum of the Bible, an eight-story, 430,000-square-­foot project, is sched­uled to open this fall.

For now, it is still very much a con­struc­tion zone, lit­tered with lad­ders and power tools and equip­ment. There are bags of white Port­land ce­ment, boxes of drill point dry­wall screws and tile to be in­stalled.

So far, ev­ery­thing’s go­ing as planned.

“Right now, the con­struc­tion is on sched­ule, the ex­hibits are all on sched­ule. We feel very good about our progress,” says mu­seum Ex­ec­u­tive Di­rec­tor Tony Zeiss.