After church, my son suggested to my daughter, her boyfriend, and me that we visit the Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC. What a great idea!
Since it had recently opened, I’ve been looking forward to a chance to visit.
My one request was to start with the Drive Thru History of the Bible Theater and the History of the Bible Artifacts exhibit.
Excitedly, went to the fourth floor, which ended up capturing our attention for the remainder of the day.
DRIVE THRU HISTORY
Many thanks to my son who took a picture of me in front of the Drive Thru History jeep! Wow, didn’t I coordinate well?
We first stumbled upon Drive Thru History while visiting Focus on the Family in Colorado, when we saw one of the videos playing in the bookstore.
Cleverly making history tangible, using humor and clever post-production techniques that hearken to original manuscripts and images, Dave Stotts also uses vehicles.
Every journey has its own vehicle to take us on tour as we travel through history.
Drive Thru History has many wonderful videos (commonly used by homeschoolers) taking us on explorations of history from the days of the Ancients all the way to the American Revolution.
For the making of the History of the Bible exhibit film, Dave Stotts drove a jeep which perfectly captured his explorations that began in Israel.
In fact, here is a video of Stotts driving his jeep through Washington DC to deliver it to the museum for an exhibit, which includes his tour of the museum while under construction.
Oh…and the mechanic visit. This poor jeep has some history of its own!
Finally the big reveal!
As shown in the facebook videos linked above, we sat in the movie room to see a 15 minute feature where Drive Thru History takes us to Israel, England, and Germany for an overview of the History of the Bible exhibit.
HISTORY OF THE BIBLE
The History of the Bible exhibit is phenomenal!
There are so many amazing things to see, but here are a few of my favorites (that survived my cell phone camera.)
My son, daughter, and her boyfriend spent lots of time looking at all the different language translations of the Bible.
Last year I read Wide as the Waters by Benson Bobrick, which amazingly told the story of everything I saw in this exhibit.
The book is incredible because it thoroughly traces the history, the beauty of the language of the text, and how different English translations reflected that, and also interestingly points to the future of self-governance.
