Calif. Museum Begins $115-Million Campaign
May 9, 2007 | Read Time: 1 minute
The Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History has started a $115-million fund-raising effort and a five-year renovation project to update its oldest facility, reports the Los Angeles Times.
The project includes plans to restore the museum’s original 1913 rotunda and create six new galleries, including a hall of dinosaurs. That hall’s star will be a Tyrannosaurus rex named Thomas, which is considered the most complete fossilized Tyrannosaurus rex on the West Coast and was discovered by a museum scientist in Montana in 2003, the Times reports.
Jane Pisano, the museum’s president, tells the paper that about $19-million in pledges and donations has been committed to the campaign so far, as well as $23-million in government money.
The first portion of the campaign’s project is expected to open in 2009.
