In honor of the Fourth of July we are extending free general admission to all veterans who visit the Creation Museum on Saturday. We thank you for your service!

We will also be offering several sessions of our ever popular Snakes Alive workshop! If you’ve seen a snake but never leaned in for a closer look this time is a fascinating eye opener. It will be a great continuation of an already busy weekend.

Friday saw the return of the popular Ocean Adventure workshop with two sell-out shows. Dr. David Menton also conducted his Microscarium workshop, examining the microscopic creatures that live in a drop of pond water. Keep an eye on our events calendar to see what exciting programs will be going on when you visit the Creation Museum!

You may have heard about a mastodon coming to the Creation Museum; it is coming no longer, it is here! A crew from our facilities and design teams spent several hours putting this impressive creature together last night. It wasn’t their first time putting the skeleton together. It has been assembled in our workshop before and most recently it was on display at the 2009 Southern Baptist Convention in Louisville, where it was seen by the attendees as they entered the convention center.

This mastodon was actually discovered nearly twenty years ago! In December 1989, the owner of the Burning Tree Golf Course in Newark, Ohio (USA), Sherm Byers, decided to expand a lake on his course. In the process of enlarging the lake, a backhoe got caught on some large unknown bones. After more bones where found, a team was called in to conduct a detailed excavation. It turned out to be one of the most complete mastodon skeletons found to date!

Joe Taylor, a well-known creationist paleontologist from Crosbyton, Texas, was called in by the owner to restore, mold and cast the bones of what turned out to be an 11-foot tall, 15-foot long mastodon. Joe made five casts from the original bones, and Sherm later sold the original skeleton to an overseas museum.

Buddy Davis (AiG singer and paleo-artist) who lives within an hour of the Newark dig site, heard about the find from a friend and went to see the mastodon. He then invited Sherm to visit his dinosaur sculpting studio. Sherm was so impressed with Buddy’s dinosaur sculptures, that he traded one of his five original castings for some of Buddy’s dinosaur models.

The ‘Burning Tree Mastodon’ is a significant find in many ways. In fact, Discover named it one of the top 50 science discoveries of 1990. Besides being one of the most complete mastodon skeletons found (95 percent of the bones were recovered—missing were the back leg, tail and most of the toe bones), it is the third largest mastodon ever found. Its stomach contained eight species of live bacteria once thought to be extinct. Additionally, flint markings were found on its ribs, indicating the hunters of the mastodon were skillful enough to kill and butcher the 10,000-pound creature (reinforcing the fact that ‘early man’ was not ‘primitive’).

Now when you visit the Creation Museum you’ll be able to see the Burning Tree Mastodon casting for yourself, on display in the Creation Museum’s Main Hall.

It is only a few days until “The Ocean Adventure” returns to the Creation Museum. This Friday, July 3, prepare to dive into the ocean with undersea explorers Wayne and Karen Brown as they present “The Caribbean Sea Expedition.”

The program will start at the ʻBeginningʼ with a Biblical review of the six days of creation focusing on the creation of the fishes. Then, four young audience members are chosen to participate in a humorous look at the ways God has given fish to play “hide and seek” in the underwater game of survival. The four “fish” hide and the audience (the “school of fish”) tries to find them. After this amusing demonstration, the Browns will show the specialized SCUBA diving equipment they use to explore the underwater world of the Caribbean Sea.

After the demonstrations, undersea explorers, Wayne and Karen Brown, will take the audience on a thrilling adventure, via an exciting high definition digital image presentation, to discover the wonders of Godʼs creation in the Caribbean Sea’s underwater world! Along the way they will explore the adaptations God gave to marine creatures to survive in the undersea environment. The amazing symbiotic relationships between different creatures will also be explored.

Children and the rest of the family will enjoy this special presentation. The cost is just $4.00 per person (children under two admitted free). Be sure to join us for this exciting program at either 12:00 or 5:00 this Friday, July 03!

Have you ever experienced the popular Dino-Mite Readers with your children when visiting the Creation Museum? More than just a “story time” Dino-Mite Readers brings to life some of Answers in Genesis’s most popular children’s books.

This summer the program’s themes cover the Seven Cs of History. Children ages 2-12 can come to learn of the truth of God’s Word at 3:30 each Sunday, and 1:30 or 3:30 Monday through Friday. We will be covering the C of “Catastrophe” through July 3. Then from July 5 through 17 you can learn more about “Confusion.”

Plan on bringing your kids to one of these exciting sessions on your next visit to the Creation Museum. You’ll even get a fun activity sheet you can take home and rest assured knowing the books are the very best in Christian and Creation reading from our very own Dragon Hall Bookstore.

That’s right, three quarters of a million people have come through the Creation Museum as of today. The Creation Museum welcomed our 750,000 guests early this morning: Aaron and Alicia Roth of Iowa along with their two year old son Elijah.

Not only did this family receive complimentary admission to the Creation Museum (and the Stargazer’s Planetarium), but they also had the opportunity to meet with Answers in Genesis CEO and Creation Museum Founder Ken Ham.