May 25, 2005

Here's an intriguing deal: Right in the heart of Manhattan -- not Kansas, but New York City -- there's a new Museum of Biblical Art.

The New York Times report on this institution says that over the next few years, it will become independent of the American Bible Society, which still has the only Web site for the museum I can find. Though a Google search on the museum's name turns up an institution in Dallas.

At any rate, the Manhattan museum is at 61st and Broadway on the Upper West Side and is dedicated not to doing Christian or Jewish ministry but, rather, to being, as The Times reported earlier this month, "the nation's first scholarly museum devoted to art and the Bible."

I love New York but don't get there enough. Next time in, however, I plan to make this place a stop. Put it on your list, too, and tell me about it if you get there.

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