If you were hoping to take advantage of a two-for-one deal first advertised last week for the Cincinnati Zoo and the nearby Creation Museum, you’re out of luck.
The zoo reportedly pulled out of the deal on Monday after receiving dozens of angry e-mails and phone calls. The promotion would have given visitors entry to either attraction for just $26. The adult admission price to the Creation Museum alone is $21.95.
Museum founder and president Ken Ham was upset but not completely surprised with the decision.
“Frankly, we are used to this kind of criticism from our opponents, and so being ‘expelled’ like this is not a huge surprise,” Ham stated in a news release.
He said the Creation Museum would continue to promote the zoo on its Web site and that discounted tickets will be offered at about half the price of the two-for-one deal.
Opponents of the controversial museum – based on a literal interpretation of the book of Genesis – were quick to pounce on the zoo for joining cross-promotional hands with the Creation Museum. While Ham characterized the partnership as a way to boost regional tourism, opponents viewed it as something more sinister.
“I believe the Cincinnati Zoo has betrayed its mission and its trust in a disgraceful way, by aligning themselves with a creationist institution that is a laughing stock to the rest of the world, and a mark of shame to the United States,” Biologist PZ Meyers wrote on the blog Pharyngula.
December 5, 2008 at 9:45 am |
This was a strange marriage anyway. As a Cincinnatian, I see it as just another bizarre event that seems to continually happen here.