Expanding the Map: New Cities Join the Christian Museum Tours Network

Christian Museum Tours (CMT) is growing, and that means more families, churches, students, and Christian educators will have an opportunity to experience some of the nation's leading museums through a biblical worldview. What began in 2016 as a group of friends giving biblical worldview tours at secular museums has grown into a nationwide network of Christian Museum Guides. Today, Christian Museum Tours offers tours at major museums and other venues across the country, helping visitors explore God's world through the lens of God's Word.

And … the map is getting bigger.

Christian Museum Tours is expanding into additional cities, with new locations coming online in communities including Nashville, Atlanta, Indianapolis, Detroit, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Seattle, Colorado Springs, Santa Barbara, Lincoln, Columbia, and the El Paso, Las Cruces, and Albuquerque area. As these locations develop, more families and groups will have the opportunity to connect with a trained Christian guide in their own region.

That local connection is important. Walking through a natural history museum with a Christian guide is more than simply taking a tour. Museums often present questions about science, history, human origins, and the natural world from a particular worldview. Christian Museum Tours gives families an opportunity to engage those exhibits together while considering what they are seeing from the perspective of Scripture.

The goal is not simply to tell visitors what to think. It is to help them slow down, ask good questions, recognize the assumptions behind what they are being told, and see the world around them through the truth of God's Word. CMT describes its tours as educational, engaging, and faith-building. Guides research the exhibits they lead and help visitors make connections between what they see in the museum and the biblical worldview. Tours are generally kept to smaller groups so that guides can interact with visitors and tailor the experience to the group.

That can make a museum visit especially valuable for families and churches. Instead of simply walking through exhibit halls and reading the signs, a group can spend the day learning together, asking questions, discussing what they see, and building confidence in their faith.

The expansion also creates new opportunities for the IAC community.

"We want to see Christian Museum Tours become accessible to more families and communities across the country," says Steven Policastro. "As we add new cities, we're not just adding locations to a map. We're creating more opportunities for Christians to engage with museums, learn together, and see God's world through the lens of His Word."

For IAC members who live near an existing CMT location, the growing network provides another resource they can share with their communities. Families planning a museum visit can connect with a local Christian Museum Guide. Churches and homeschool groups can consider a tour as an educational or group activity. Christian educators can use the available resources to prepare students before visiting a museum.

ASK YOURSELF: Might I Serve God in this Capacity?

And for members who have wondered whether they could become involved themselves, expansion means there are opportunities to become a CMT Guide.

CMT provides guide resources and training designed to prepare guides to lead these experiences. Guides do not have to be professional museum employees. They are Christians who are passionate about God's Word, God's world, and helping others learn about both. As new cities come online, local believers with the right interests and abilities may have an opportunity to serve their own communities in this way.

The CMT Resources page also provides families and educators with materials to help prepare for a museum visit. Resources include information about exhibits, research, videos, and other materials that can help visitors make the most of their day.

The bigger picture is simple: museums are places where millions of people encounter questions about the world, its history, and its origins. Christian Museum Tours is working to make sure Christians have an opportunity to enter those spaces prepared, confident, and equipped to engage those questions from a biblical worldview.

As our network continues to expand, the map will keep changing. A city that once had no Christian Museum Tour may soon have a local guide ready to walk through its museum with a family, a church group, or a classroom.

For IAC members, that means the growth of Christian Museum Tours is more than something happening somewhere else. It is another way the IAC community is connecting people, equipping Christians, and creating opportunities to engage the culture around us.

To see current tour destinations, available resources, and opportunities to get involved, visit Christian Museum Tours and explore what is available in your area.