By Movieguide® Staff
The Museum of the Bible unveiled some exciting new exhibits ahead of America’s 250th birthday!
“The Bible has shaped America’s founding and the course of our nation’s history,” said Dr. Carlos Campo, president and CEO of Museum of the Bible, per the museum’s website. “These exhibits and events reveal that influence in concrete terms, not as a theological or political argument, but rather as a careful, historical examination.”
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The Museum of the Bible will be showing exhibits like “From the Vault: Art About America,” which displays art that connects early American history of the Bible’s influence on Puritan art, and “The Bible in Times of War,” a display that brings together Bibles carried by American service members throughout US military history.
An exhibit titled “Sacred Liberty” will showcase “the Bible’s role and presence in the American Revolution and the Founding Era more broadly,” per Museum of the Bible curator Anthony Schmidt.
He told The Christian Post this exhibit will show how the Bible “was used by people on both sides of the American Revolution to justify their cause, to rally support and to make claims about the political system and their observations about the political climate.”
“The Bible was just such an immense cultural authority during the Founding Era,” Schmidt added.
There is also a series of 12 lectures planned, titled “These Truths Are Not Self-Evident.” The speakers include Thomas Kidd of Baylor University, Robert George of Princeton University, Daniel Dreisbach of American University, Catherine Brekus of Harvard University, Vincent Phillip Muñoz of the University of Notre Dame, Rabbi Meir Soloveichik of Yeshiva University, Esau McCaulley of Wheaton College, Thomas Albert Howard of Valparaiso University and Mark David Hall of Regent University.
These new exhibits are expected to stay open throughout 2026 and into 2027, according to Schmidt.
“We have been thinking about this for quite some time and laying the groundwork for…over a year and so this makes it even more exciting to finally unveil to the public,” he shared.
In an interview about the Museum of the Bible’s mission, Kate James, development officer for the Museum of the Bible, told The Dispatch, “We want a biblically literate society. We want people to know God’s work. We want people to engage in God’s word and we want people to be transported by God.”
The new exhibits will open July 3, while the lecture series is set to kick off June 7.
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