First Impressions
The Ark Encounter is a museum that is located in Williamstown, Kentucky. It has lots of history about the great flood. The museum is a life sized replica of the arc, and it is ginormous! It is mad completely out of wood, and there are beautiful spruce tree trunks on the outside and inside.
The people who made this originally had just a museum called . It not only had great information about the flood, but also about the world before it. The people who made the arc believed that dinosaurs lived when humans did, so when we went into the arc, in the stalls there were a lot of dinasaour species.
Exploring the Inside
I thought that the interior was incredible. The floor, walls, and ceiling were all made of wood. It was so beautiful. The first part was all of the water jars that they kept fresh water in.
Next was the spot where they kept the rodents and things. They has an ingenious system where the bottom of the pen was slopped so if the animals pooped then it would fall down into this whole system instead of them have in to clean each one out one by one.
They also had little wooden troughs on the side so that there would be food and water for them. They would only have to replace them now and then. We walked along for a little longer, reading the sings. It told us about how they cared for all of the animals. There was eight people on board and they each had to care for 850 animals. For me, that would be a lot of work. They had fake animals in the stalls, but they looked so real!
Dinasaurs!
We kept going along the boat, looking at how it was built, and how long it took. It was 51 feet high, 510 feet long, and 85 feet wide. I probably took Noah, his family, and any other help he got about 75-100 years to build, but 100 is unlikely. Next we moved on to the big cages. There were some big dinosaurs in these ones. There was even a T-Rex.
Exploring the Second Level
We moved up to level 2, and then I had a snack with everyone. Next there was a video. It was about Noah when he was building the arc, and then a news crew come to interview him. It was very funny. We were close to when we had to leave so I went up to the 3rd floor. There was a little more there, and there was also another video. It was also very funny. My mom had to get on a call, so I went around a looked at the last things. I learned a lot of things from the museum. I learned that Noah died at age 950 years old. I learned that he had his first son at 500. I learned that his dad died at 777. I had previously not known he detentions of the arc or how long it took to build, but now I do. I learned the names of Noah’s sons, and his sons wives. I was surprised to learn that each person had to care for 850 animals! I would highly recommend this place. It is not only a museum, but a amusement park. It has a zoo, carousel and virtual reality thing.it was where you went back in time to see the arc. There was also a whole high ropes course with a zip line! I am so glad that we were able to go here.