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Don’t pack your bags yet, but some biblically-minded entrepreneurs are planning a Noah-themed tourist attraction:<\/a> <\/p>\n

\nThe same group behind the Creation Museum is partnering with another group to build a full-scale version of Noah’s Ark that will anchor a family oriented Bible-theme attraction costing an estimated $150 million.<\/p>\n

\"noah.jpg\"<\/a><\/span>The “Ark Encounter” is scheduled to be completed in spring 2014 and will be built in northern Kentucky at a site to be determined, according to a news release. The Creation Museum — which by comparison cost $27 million — also is located in northern Kentucky in Petersburg, near Cincinnati.<\/p>\n

The Ark Encounter also will include live animal shows, an aviary, a replica of the Tower of Babel with exhibits, a children’s interactive play area, a 500-seat 5-D special effects theater, a lookalike first-century Middle Eastern village and a “Walled City much like was found in ancient times,” the release said.<\/p>\n

Answers in Genesis — the Christian ministry that built the Creation Museum — is partnering with a group called Ark Encounter LLC to build the Ark complex. It will be privately funded and will employ up to 900 people either full or part time.<\/p>\n

“We are very pleased to be a part of this new project,” Ken Ham, president and founder of Answers in Genesis and the Creation Museum, said in a statement. “AiG has been blessed to see the Creation Museum host over one million guests in three years. Based on our experience and success operating the large, state-of-the-art Creation Museum, our board believes the time is right to partner with the Ark Encounter in building a full-scale Noah’s Ark. We hope that this fun and educational complex called the Ark Encounter will become another popular tourist destination for the state.”<\/p>\n

Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear also applauded the effort.<\/p>\n

“We are excited to join with the Ark Encounter group as it seeks to provide this unique, family friendly tourist attraction to the Commonwealth,” Beshear said in a statement. “Bringing new jobs to Kentucky is my top priority, and with the estimated 900 jobs this project will create, I am happy about the economic impact this project will have on the Northern Kentucky region.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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