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===Creation Museum===
{{Main|Creation Museum}}
[[File:AIG museum.jpg|thumb|right|The Creation Museum]]
AiG's Creation Museum is a museum displaying a [[Young Earth creationism|Young-Earth creationist]] worldview and [[pseudoarchaeology]]. The facility has received much criticism from the scientific and religious communities, as well as from cultural commentators.<ref>{{cite news |last= Jarman |first= Josh |date= May 25, 2007 |title= Creating a stir |url= http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/faith_and_values/2007/05/25/creation.ART_ART_05-25-07_B6_5J6Q39G.html |newspaper= [[The Columbus Dispatch]] |location= Columbus, Ohio |publisher= Dispatch Printing Company |access-date= October 7, 2014 |archive-date= December 27, 2018 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20181227133149/https://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/faith_and_values/2007/05/25/creation.ART_ART_05-25-07_B6_5J6Q39G.html |url-status= dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last= Lovan |first= Dylan T. |date= May 19, 2007 |title= Educators question Creation Museum |url= http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2007/05/19/met_129149.shtml |newspaper= [[The Augusta Chronicle]] |location= Augusta, Georgia |agency= [[Associated Press]] |access-date= October 7, 2014}}</ref> The Creation Museum opened May 27, 2007, at a cost of $27&nbsp;million raised entirely by private donations. The displays were created by Patrick Marsh, known for work on [[Universal Studios Florida]] attractions for [[Kongfrontation|King Kong]] and [[Jaws (ride)|Jaws]].<ref>{{cite news |last= Rothstein |first= Edward |author-link= Edward Rothstein |title= Adam and Eve in the Land of the Dinosaurs |url= https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/24/arts/24crea.html |newspaper= [[The New York Times]] |type= Museum review |date= May 24, 2007 |access-date= April 6, 2008}}</ref>

[[A. A. Gill]], a British writer and critic, described the museum as "battling science and reason since 2007", writing: "This place doesn't just take on evolution—it squares off with geology, anthropology, paleontology, history, chemistry, astronomy, zoology, biology, and good taste. It directly and boldly contradicts most {{nowrap|-onomies}} and all {{nowrap|-ologies,}} including most theology."<ref>{{cite magazine |last= Gill |first= A. A. |author-link= A. A. Gill |date= February 2010 |title= Roll Over, Charles Darwin! |url= http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2010/02/creation-museum-201002 |magazine= [[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]] |location= New York |publisher= [[Condé Nast]] |issn= 0733-8899 |access-date= November 30, 2012}}</ref>

In 2012 a report noted that "public fascination" with the Creation Museum was "fading".<ref name="AttendanceDrops">{{cite news |last= McNair |first= James |date= November 7, 2012 |title= Creation Museum Attendance Drops for Fourth Straight Year |url= http://citybeat.com/cincinnati/article-26546-creation_museum_atte.html |newspaper= [[Cincinnati CityBeat]] |location= Nashville, Tennessee |publisher= SouthComm |access-date= October 7, 2014 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20141013092325/http://citybeat.com/cincinnati/article-26546-creation_museum_atte.html |archive-date= October 13, 2014 |url-status= dead }}</ref> In November 2012 AiG reported that attendance for the year ended June 30 came to 254,074, which represented a 10 percent drop from the previous year and the attraction's "fourth straight year of declining attendance and its lowest annual attendance yet".<ref name="AttendanceDrops" /> By mid-2015, 2.4&nbsp;million people had visited the museum (about 340,000 visitors over seven years),<ref>{{cite book
|last1= Trollinger
|first1 = Susan L.
|last2 = Trollinger
|first2 = William Vance Jr.
|year= 2016
|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=lOf-CwAAQBAJ
|title= Righting America at the Creation Museum
|publisher= JHU Press
|page = 13
|isbn = 9781421419534
}}</ref> and in 2017, AiG reported that in the year since its other attraction, the Ark Encounter, opened, the Creation Museum saw over 800,000 visitors, nearly triple the annual average of 300,000 visitors.<ref>{{cite news | last1=Wartman | first1=Scott | title=Creationist Parks Still a Potent Draw for Visitors and Controversy | url=http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2017/07/07/creationist-parks-still-potent-draw-visitors-controversy/425293001/ | date=July 7, 2017 | newspaper=[[The Cincinnati Enquirer]] | access-date=July 9, 2017 | quote=Answers in Genesis, the nonprofit ministry that operates both the Creation Museum and Ark Encounter, claims the Creation Museum has averaged 300,000 visitors a year since it opened in 2007. More than 800,000 have come since the Ark Encounter opened last year, said Ken Ham, founder of Answers in Genesis, based in Petersburg in Boone County. But there's no way to fact check these claims since AiG is a private organization.}}</ref>