Biblical History Center

"Our family had the pleasure of experiencing a guided tour and lunch. Our guide, Ms. Carol, was incredibly engaging with the kids and so knowledgeable! The tour immerses you in the time periods of the old and new testaments, with the opportunity to walk through life size replicas, as well as see dozens of real artifacts. The lunch was also incredibly educational, teaching why and how the meals were prepared and served, as well as giving in great detail insight into the Last Supper. It is a wonderfully unique immersive experience that I would recommend this for all ages!"

"We booked a tour with meal for my entire family of nine including grandparents and children. I wish we had just booked the tour instead and skipped the meal. They charge $29 extra for the Biblical Meal with the tour and this is in NO WAY a $29 meal. It isn't even a $10 meal. The website says you will be treated to a four course meal including soup, salad, fruit, a main course, and dessert. Let's talk about that. I wasn't expecting a buffet, but for $29 I was expecting not to leave hungry. The soup is lentil soup. You will be given about a fourth of a cup of soup. The bowl they place in front of you will be less than a third full. The "salad" is served with the main meal and is just greens with a little vinaigrette dressing over it. There is one bowl of salad for every person in the group to share, so don't take more than two or three spinach leaves or there won't be enough for everyone. The fruit is a handful of grapes and a few raisins for each guest. The main course is delicious, or at least the two bites of it that we were each given was delicious. Yes, you heard me right. They literally give you a toothpick with two bite sized pieces of grilled chicken on it. That is your main course. They also have a cereal bowl of hummus that is put out with this main course for your whole group (your family plus others). I recommend putting your teaspoon of hummus on one of the 4 inch tortillas you will be given with your spinach leaves and the two chicken bites. That way you can pretend you have a really scrawny wrap from a restaurant you'll never eat at again. For dessert you will be treated to a couple teaspoons of something that is very like applesauce. Yum yum. Also, this is served at the beginning of the meal. Oh, and their misleading website left off the appetizer they serve. You can pick a bite of green onion, a bite of thinly sliced radish, or a bite of parsley. Then you get to dunk it into salt water before you eat it. Luckily, they don't count the appetizer in the listing, or they'd probably have added another $5 for that bite. When our family left, every one of us was hungry. We had to stop for a meal after our $29 meal at the Biblical History Center. DO YOURSELF AND YOUR WALLET A FAVOR: SKIP THE MEAL IF YOU ARE GOING AND DO ONLY THE TOUR. Added after response: Dear Biblical Heritage Center, Google Reviews are supposed to be done anonymously. But, thanks for adding my name to your response. I'm happy to give you all an honest review and put my name on it. You might be surprised to know that my youngest, who is only eleven, asked for more salad during our meal. Our docent told him no. Matthew 25:40 says "Whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me." Surely children count in this. The rest of us didn't ask for anything extra because we had heard her decline his request very sharply. Further, it is very interesting that you mentioned that you all helped with translation. We brought our own translator and your docent spoke so quickly that he finally stopped trying to translate everything. There was simply no way to keep up. Further, our docent spent most of the time on our tour looking at her watch and hurrying us along. She was very welcoming indeed. You all are just as bad as the tv evangelists. You scam Christians for money and get away with it. The tour is a bit overpriced, but maybe worth doing once if you are lucky enough to get a nice docent. The meal, however, is an absolute rip off!"

"Amazing Bible time cultural things. Old testament and new testament historical cultural and style of last supper eaten in the hall, the food of Jesus time was served. Amazing place to visit. I recommend to visit this Biblcal Historical place. You feel that you entered in Bible time."

"The exhibits looked very authentic and I liked how each exhibit was easily accessible to the public. The exhibits were not behind any barriers. I could walk up to each one and absorbed the experience. There were small buildings to explore as well as tents. By walking through the museum you can see a complete biblical timeline from the Israelites, to Babylon, to the Romans. There was a room showing the city of Jerusalem and a model of the ark of the covenant, and another showing the kind of room the last supper took place in. My favourite experience as climbing the steps of the colosseum. The only downsides to the museum I could notice was that some of the displays seemed to have been filled with rainwater or suffered from the weather. A large portion of the museum is outside. I believe I could also see some modern tools laying around at some point which broke the immersion."

"Carol, our guide, was wonderful in her presentation. I could have listened for 2 more hours. She presented the Christmas tour to us. She brought out many things I had never thought about in Christ's birth. The experience of the Lord's supper was great too!"