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During special Bible presentations at
Museum of the Bible’s World Stage
Theater guests will be transported to
the land of the Bible to experience
the sites and sounds surrounding
them through amazing technology.
Sea Scrolls by the internationally renowned sponsor various educational programs to their tour. Utilizing groundbreaking and
Brill academic publishing house. Edited by educate the public. It will host lectures by newly-patented technology, the digital guide
some of the world’s top biblical scholars world-class scholars, demonstration labs so will help lead individual and group visitors
from universities in Israel, Canada and the that visitors can learn about various aspects per their schedules and their priorities,
United States, the book, entitled Dead Sea of the Bible in a more direct and hands-on and will be customizable even before they
Scrolls Fragments in the Museum Collection, fashion, and host a variety of rotating exhibits arrive if they so choose. It will also enhance
showcases 13 never before seen Dead Sea from around the world. their experience by allowing them to go
Scrolls. The research team utilized state- into more depth on each artifact or exhibit
of-the-art digital imaging technology, which All of these efforts have made, and will make, should they want to do so. By simply placing
allowed researchers to reconstruct the the Museum of the Bible a center of biblical their device on large touchscreens located
text of the scrolls in previously impossible scholarship unlike the world has ever seen. throughout the museum, a new world of
ways. The book has been called “a great digital, immersive, interactive content will be
contribution to modern scholarship.” It was To accompany its world-class scholarly at their fingertips, making it possible for them
listed by Live Science as among the nine programs, the Museum of the Bible will also not only to learn a great deal, but to do so in
biggest archaeological discoveries of 2016. feature some of the most advanced technology a very fun way.
of any museum in the world, enhancing the
The Museum of the Bible will also provide visitor experience in unprecedented ways. Technology also enables the museum to
permanent exhibit space for artifacts and reach a global audience. Visitors will have
exhibits from other world-class museums Museums can be overwhelming and access to a wide range of media content
and libraries relevant to the Bible. In this labyrinthine places to visit. To address this, in ten languages, be able to provide visitors
vein, last year the museum concluded an the Museum of the Bible’s digital guide with indoor navigation and live foot-traffic
historic agreement with the Israel Antiquities will allow individual and group visitors monitoring, and even set up rendezvous
Authority, whereby many of the priceless unparalleled flexibility in terms of organizing points for their groups. To improve a visitor’s
artifacts in Israel’s possession will be on and getting the most out of their visit. experience while in the museum, the digital
display for the visitors in Washington, D.C. guide will also make lunch and dinner
The digital guide will be a small handheld reservations at the museum’s theaters and
The new museum will also be allocating device provided to visitors when they arrive restaurants.
significant space to research labs and and will serve as their primary interface on
libraries for visiting scholars, as well as
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