passages: the bible experience

I saw this in Springfield, MO, and it has now closed there and is moving to Santa Clarita, and is due to open in April. It's very worth the visit, plan on spending a few hours, especially if you like history.

This is THE comprehensive history of the Bible...piece by piece historical and well represented. Take your time, absorb it all...truly amazing and awe inspiring.

Passages is a traveling exhibit that has moved to Springfield, Missouri, and is no longer available in Colorado Springs.

Viewing hand-inscribed and printed pieces of art of this quality and historical magnitude was incredible. The illuminated works were particularly impressive.

I was thoroughly impressed beyond myImagination of the presentation of articlesOf antiquity of the Holy Bible. From the fragments of Dead sea scrolls to finished work of the king James Bible, a new appreciation of the trail of sacrifice others have traveled for us today. TalkingRobots covered with human like faces that speak heighten the over experience.Tyndales- exhibit impacted me the most as well as the Holocaust portion. Ear phones are provided with additional commentary. Kids interactive program is available for scavenger hunt for prizes. Gift shop has large number of selections to take passages home with you to show others. Allocate 3 hours to view all without rushing.

Great collection of bibles and biblical scrolls and ancient sacred artifacts. Even video and interactive displays. ANYONE who has ANY interest in the sacred texts or church history would enjoy this exhibit when it travels to a nearby town. Highly recommend.

This exhibition was not advertised enough. I only heard about it from a friend last week. My husband and I went yesterday, together with another couple. What an incredible undertaking! The size of it and the quality of the artifacts amazed all of us. The exhibit of countless Bibles through the ages from many different cultures and countries was mind boggling. We were truly impressed by the reproduction and demonstration of Gutenberg's printing press. The interactive displays, holograms, videos etc. were really well done, and we could easily have spent another 5 hours exploring. Thank you. God's Word lives on!

Our family, ages 7 on up visited yesterday. Everyone thoroughly enjoyed it! We only spent about 3 hours, as it was close to closing time. I think my husband and I could have spent the whole day there. Our kids' favorites were the display of the Queen, the nazi Germany display of what remained, and the put your name in the computer and see it written in different languages. Also the ornate Bible covers, and really too many other things to list! Very informative and fun for the whole family.

I very much enjoyed the exhibit with my adult son. We were advised by friends to give it at least 2 hours but I still felt that was not enough time. The collection is world class and covers thousands of years! The exhibit is very well done , interesting and keeps your focus. There are child friendly areas and benches to rest of here and there. Friendly staff , free lecture schedule and a gift shop round out the experience.

The expected two to three hours expanded to five or six--without coming anywhere near looking at everything in detail.

I had a wonderful time here and after spending 5.5 hours, still did not see it all. I know its not for everyone, but those who have a negative attitude towards this event are missing something special in their minds and hearts. However, they have that right.

This place is amazing! Some say there are dinosaurs uh no there is not a single dinosaur! They have old scrolls dating back to over 3500 years ago! Please go to the place before reviewing please! Thank you. God bless.

I thoroughly enjoyed visiting Passages. It was so much more than I expected. I spent 4 hours absorbed in all that it had to offer. If the Bible is important to you, this journey through many stages of it's creation and preservation is fascinating. I went with a group and we all thought it was wonderful and were disappointed that it had not been better publicized. I highly recommend it. I hope you don't procrastinate until it moves on.

I am an Atheist, but have a lot of interest in the history of the Bible.There are some wonderful items on display. It was much much better in that regard than I expected. Some important favorite pieces that I was excited to view: P39, an important early manuscript containing a portion of the Gospel of John from the mid-200s. It's one of the earliest attestations to John in existence. A letter penned by Martin Luther. A one-of-a-kind Tyndale New Testament. Unfinished pages from the Gutenberg Bible. First editions of the Great Bible, the Geneva Bible, Bishops Bible and King James Bible. A He Bible and a She Bible (first and second editions of the KJV with variant renderings of gender for a pronoun in Ruth). A Wicked Bible, which admonished, "Thou shalt commit adultery", a Breeches Bible, in which Adam and Eve made 'breeches' out of fig leaves. In all, the content of the exhibit is outstanding. If I had seen these items in a special collection at the Smithsonian, I still would have been wowed.The accompanying audio guide ($3) is crucial, and very well done. It would take all-day to listen to all the audio available. Just walk up to a case, and if it interests you, listen to the overview, and if there is a piece that captures your attention, listen to the detail about that piece. Not all cases have audio... not all individual items have audio, but all the really good pieces do. For exceptional pieces, the audio could be as much as 10 minutes long, describing the artifact and its importance in detail. Other than the artifacts themselves, the audio was the best thing going for the exhibit.The proselytizing was on the very low side. For example, in describing the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the was presented as being fortunate, lucky, amazing, rather than miraculous or God-given. The attention of the exhibit was focused on the artifacts, the history, and the influential people related to the Bible. A letter from Martin Luther is on display, and the accompanying audio about that piece describes the mindset of Luther, how he saw himself, and how he saw his cause. There is zero discussion of whether Luther was right or inspired. At the end of the exhibit there was a film which I started to watch, but which was clearly leaning toward how wonderful it is that the Bible was preserved. I didn't finish watching the film. I didn't leave in a huff. I wasn't offended. I simply moved on. At no time did anyone ask what church I attended or if I wanted to be saved.There is an odd mix in the professionalism of this museum, however. The artifacts and audio guide are stellar. The talking statues are goofy. The setting for the exhibit is adapted as well as it can be, but is still just an empty Hobby Lobby. These elements knock it down to 4-stars.Couple of quick notes. This exhibit is for intelligent people who find history fascinating. I wouldn't take anyone under high school age. The museum makes an attempt to include interest for younger people, but it isn't enough to keep them busy for the hours that you could spend here. The gift-shop is mercifully small and un-forced. There is no food available. Across the street, however, is Grand Gyros, long one of my favorite spots in Colorado Springs.All in all, I highly recommend a visit.

I am not a Christian, and I usually avoid places of this sort, but a brochure at my hotel promised me a life-size hologram of Abraham Lincoln, a room decorated as though you are on the moon, and an animatronic lion. It sounded too ridiculous to pass up, and I was not disappointed. It was definitely cheesy and leaned a bit Christian, but it actually wasn't too religious. It was more like a goofy museum than anything else. There wasn't really any proselytizing or evangelizing. There were, however, a whole bunch of creepy, life-size animatronic historical figures, all of the other things promised on the brochure, several bean bag games, and the opportunity to practice writing with a quill-pen in a dark cave. It definitely doesn't beat the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, but it was an entertaining rainy-day activity.