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 |
Northwest Science Museum is a creationist museum in Idaho. It opened on June 14, 2014. The museum's directors plan to create a 350,000 square foot facility including a full-scale model of Noah's Ark near Boise, Idaho, replacing the museum's current "Vision Center" near the state capitol in Boise. The museum's founders say that their collection of Ica stones offer proof that humans and dinosaurs coexisted, that out-of-place artifacts constitute "damaging evidences [sic] against evolution", and they can show with other evidence the Earth is 6,000 years old and it was physically possible for Noah to bring dinosaurs on board the Ark.
Inspiration
Fundraising documents published by the founders cite the Creation Museum in Kentucky as establishing the viability of a similar concern in Idaho.
Collection
The museum's collection includes petrified wood, fossil dinosaur eggs, the Ica stones mentioned above and a replica of the "Lone Star" mastodon skull. They present the fossils as having been formed about 4,500 years ago in the Biblical Flood.
