Choose How You Meet the Ancient World
Pick an experience or tour that fits your way of exploring.
Experiences & Tours
Twenty-three life-size reconstructions. Ancient artifacts from Israel. A fifteen-dish meal eaten the way it was three thousand years ago. Pick an experience that fits your style.
PLAN FOR
90 minutes for a tour. Up to 3 hours with the biblical meal.
OPEN
Sunday & Monday: Closed
Tuesday – Saturday:
10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
ACCESS
Galleries, meal areas, and most garden paths are wheelchair accessible
FIND US
LaGrange, Georgia — about an hour southwest of Atlanta
3 Ways To Spend The Day
Every ticket includes full access to the Archaeological Replica Garden, the Biblical Life Artifacts Gallery, and the Time Tunnel. What changes is how much of it you’re guided through — and whether you stay for the meal.
SELF-GUIDED TOUR
Price: Adult $21.27
Child 6–12 $15.92
Under 5 free
Go at your own pace.
Take the grounds on your own schedule. Interpretive signage walks you through the replica garden and the Time Tunnel, and the artifact gallery is open to explore as long as you like. Best for repeat visitors, or anyone who’d rather read a placard than follow a group.
Call to book your self-guided tour.
GUIDED TOUR
Price: Adult $33.04
Child 6–12 $27.69
Under 5 free
Bring the whole thing to life.
A guide leads you through the four worlds of the replica garden — the shepherd, the farmer, the household, the city — explaining how each structure was built and who lived and worked inside it. This is where the details land: why a threshing floor sits where it does, what a millstone actually took to turn, how a family of eight shared one room.
GUIDED TOUR + BIBLICAL MEAL
Price: Adult $69.42
Child 6–12 $42.67
Under 5 free
Finish at the table.
The full tour, followed by a fifteen-dish meal built entirely from foods available in the ancient Near East — fresh fruit, hummus, bread still warm from the oven. You’ll eat reclined, in the order and manner an ancient household would have, while your guide explains the customs behind every course.
Included With Every Ticket
Three sites, one campus. However you tour, you'll see all of it.
Archaeological Garden
Not models. Not illustrations. Full-scale reconstructions of the buildings, tools, and spaces that shaped daily life in the biblical world — a goat-hair tent you can step inside, a rock-cut tomb, a winepress, millstones you can put your hands on.
The garden is organized into four areas of ancient life, so walking it is less like touring a museum and more like moving through a village.
Ancient Artifacts
Oil lamps, storage jars, weights, tools, coins — objects that were used, set down, and buried for two or three thousand years before being excavated. They’re displayed in reconstructed settings rather than bare cases, so you see a lamp in a niche where a lamp belonged.
These artifacts come from the National Treasures of Israel on long-term loan from the Israel Antiquities Authority. Only eight institutions in the United States hold a collection like this. One of them is in LaGrange.
Houses of Worship
A walk through the ruins of four ancient worship sites, arranged so you move forward through time as you move through the space. The columns standing in front of each one show how architectural style shifted across the centuries — the kind of change that’s hard to describe and obvious the moment you see it lined up.
Signage guides you through on your own. Private guided productions through the Time Tunnel can be arranged for an additional fee.
The Last Supper Had a Menu
Every guided tour can end at the table. Not a themed dinner — a reconstructed one, built from what people in the ancient Near East actually had, served the way they actually served it.
Fifteen Dishes, All of Them First-Century
Every one of the fifteen dishes existed in first-century Galilee. Lentils and chickpeas, olives, dates, figs, cheese, salted fish, herbs, and bread still warm from the oven.
This is what a household in Judea actually set out. It's a full meal, not a tasting — you'll leave full.
Three Tables in a U, and Nobody Faces a Wall
You sit low at a triclinium — three tables set in a U, open at one end. No forks. You tear bread and reach into dishes shared by the whole table. The shape is the point. It's why a disciple could lean back toward the person beside him, and why the betrayer's hand was in the same bowl as Jesus'. Your guide will show you how the reclining version worked.
Suddenly the Last Supper Has a Floor Plan.
Your guide takes each course as you eat it — why bread is broken instead of cut, what the seating order announced about rank, which customs a first-century guest would have read instantly. You've heard these passages your whole life. Now they have a room, a table, and a smell.
Adding the meal to a guided tour turns a 1.5-hour visit into a three-hour visit. It's the thing our visitors mention first, and it's the reason most groups drive further than they planned to.
Book Tour + Biblical MealAdd Something You Can Do With Your Hands
Bookable additions to any tour. Popular with families and school groups, and available to anyone who asks.
Make bread the way it's been made for three thousand years.
Mix, knead, and bake flatbread over an open fire, the same method shepherds have used in the desert since long before anyone wrote it down. Everyone gets their hands in it, and you eat what you make.
Four excavation pits. Real technique. Actual dirt.
Kids work four archaeological pits, three of them modeled on genuine excavations from different periods. They learn how a dig is gridded and recorded, and why the layer something is found in matters as much as the object itself. Then they find things.
See It Before You Book It
Inside the museum, the garden, and the meal.
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Limited-date experiences built around specific seasons and themes. When they're gone, they're gone until next year.
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Bringing a Group?
Church groups, schools, homeschool co-ops, and bus tours book differently — with custom scheduling, group rates, and productions arranged around your itinerary.
See Group Options
The Ancient World Is an Hour From Atlanta
Pick your experience and we'll see you in LaGrange.