; Whereas the Museum of the Bible will aim to be the most technologically advanced museum in the world; Whereas, in 2014, the architectural concept submission for the Museum of the Bible was approved by the Commission of Fine Arts, the local Washington, D.C., Advisory Neighborhood Commission, and the Historic Preservation Review Board, and the primary building of the Museum of the Bible was awarded historical status by the Historic Preservation Review Board; Whereas, on November 17, 2017, the Museum of the Bible will open a 430,000 square foot nonprofit museum in Washington, D.C., 3 blocks from the Capitol, and will be free to all visitors; Whereas the Museum of the Bible will have 3 primary exhibit floors focused on the history, narrative, and impact of the Bible, featuring hundreds of artifacts from the Museum Collections, including ancient biblical fragments, Torah scrolls, medieval manuscripts, rare printed Bibles, and Americana; Whereas the entrance to the Museum of the Bible will feature two 40-foot-tall bronze panels that contain the first lines of Genesis in Latin, as originally printed in the Gutenberg Bible, and art glass panels featuring a papyrus containing the 19th psalm; and Whereas the Museum of the Bible is an innovative, global, educational institution the purpose of which is to invite all people to engage with the Bible: Now, therefore, be it