Northwest Science Museum facts for kids
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| Established | June 14, 2014 |
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| Location | 1835 Wildwood St., Boise, Idaho, US |
| Type | Creationist museum |
| Founder | Douglas J. Bennett, Brent Carter, Rick Deighton, Stan G. Lutz |
The Northwest Science Museum is a special kind of museum in Idaho. It opened its doors on June 14, 2014. This museum focuses on a view called creationism. This means it presents ideas about how the Earth and life began based on a religious understanding of the world.
The people who run the museum have big plans for the future. They want to build a very large new facility. This new place would be about 350,000 square feet. It would even include a full-size model of Noah's Ark! This new museum would be located near Boise, Idaho. It would replace their current "Vision Center" in Boise.
The museum's founders believe their collection of Ica stones shows that humans and dinosaurs lived at the same time. They also say that certain objects, called out-of-place artifacts, challenge the idea of evolution. The museum aims to show that the Earth is about 6,000 years old. They also want to show how Noah could have brought dinosaurs onto the Ark.
What Inspired the Museum?
The founders of the Northwest Science Museum looked at other successful museums for ideas. They were inspired by the Creation Museum in Kentucky. This museum showed them that a similar science museum could also be popular and work well in Idaho.
What Can You See?
The Northwest Science Museum has many interesting items in its collection. You can see pieces of petrified wood. This is wood that has turned into stone over a long time. They also have fossilized dinosaur eggs.
A special part of their collection is the Ica stones. These stones have carvings that some people believe show humans and dinosaurs together. The museum also has a copy of the "Lone Star" mastodon skull. A mastodon was a large, elephant-like animal that lived long ago.
The museum presents these fossils and items with a specific idea. They suggest that these fossils were formed about 4,500 years ago. This would have happened during a big flood, as described in the Bible.
