Museum Expansion Project

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LEADERSHIP DONORS TO THE NEW MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE

(as of October 23, 2008)

The Museum of Nature & Science has secured more than $107 million in capital funds towards its current goal of $155 million, which will fund the site acquisition, exhibition planning and design, construction of the new building, education programs and an endowment.  Major gifts include the following:

The Perot Children in honor of their parents, Margot and H. Ross Perot	$ 50,000,000
Hunt Petroleum	$ 10,000,000
The Hoglund Foundation & Family	$ 10,000,000
T. Boone Pickens	$ 10,000,000
The Rees-Jones Foundation	$ 10,000,000
David, Emily & Catherine Corrigan	$   2,500,000
Harry W. Bass, Jr. Foundation	$   1,000,000
Maura B. and Timothy P. Costello	$   1,000,000
Kathryn Hiett Jordan	$   1,000,000
Harry W. Bass, Jr. Foundation	$   1,000,000
The Rosewood Foundation	$   1,000,000
Mr. and Mrs. Louis A. Beecherl, Jr.	$      500,000
Swank Capital, LLC	$      500,000
Museum allocation from receipts from the BODYWORLDS exhibition	$      250,000

 

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MNS is an AAM accredited institution that is the result of the merger of the Dallas Museum of Natural History, The Science Place, and the Dallas Children's Museum, supported in part by the City of Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs, the Texas Commission on the Arts, and HP.