Pope John Paul Cultural Center
Washington, D.C.
The Pope John Paul Cultural Center incorporates three major entities: an interactive museum, an art museum, and a place for scholarly research.
The interactive museum features modern technology that challenges the visitor to explore their faith and to interact with others in a dialogue about faith. The art museum features changing art exhibits from the Vatican Museums, as well as other art exhibits. The scholarly research side allows for exploring the concepts in Catholic thought that have been laid out by Pope John Paul II.
With the concept of the Center established, the question became where this idea would be realized. The Holy Father selected Washington, D.C., calling it the crossroads of the Third Millennium. The realization of the dream began in 1997 with the start of construction on the Center. The site chosen was a wooded 12 acres adjacent to The Catholic University of America and near both the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Kroll Security Group provided security planning, design and installation management services for 100,000 square feet of base building and interior spaces including all security measures for specific exhibits and exhibition pieces.
