If you want to see a full-scale version of Noah’s Ark all you will have to do is take a trip to Kentucky.

Pretty much everybody has heard the story of how God tasked Noah to build an ark and collect two of every animal to keep them safe before He sent a flood to restart life on the Earth. One can imagine the size of the vessel that Noah had to build. Now that will not be left to imagination.

The Ark Encounter theme park is completing a full-scale ark that is being built to the specifications reported in the Bible. The ship is 510 feet long, 85 feet wide and 51 feet high. The cost of the entire project is estimated at 100 million dollars.

Ken Ham is building the project. He has a ministry called Answers in Genesis. Ken’s Creation Museum attracts nearly half a million visitors each year. That museum features exhibits that include Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden and dinosaurs eating fruit.

This new venture will likely quickly attract as many or more visitors each year to be able to stand next to such an awe inspiring vessel that was built long before power tools, cranes and other modern vehicles that made the construction easier.

Visitors will also be able to go inside the Ark to see what it would have been like for Noah and his family as they waited for the waters to recede and they could leave the floating shelter.

You can find out more about the Ark Encounter theme park at their website here. You can see more pictures of the construction of the full-scale Noah’s Ark at the Ark Encounter Facebook page here.

The Ark Encounter theme park and the full-scale Noah’s Ark is scheduled to open July 7th in Williamstown, Kentucky.

I know the next time I am heading through Kentucky I will have to try to schedule time to go see the full-scale Noah’s Ark!

By: Buck Stevens