New history museum raises $1.3M, wins challenge grant - New Mexico Business Weekly:

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million needed to win a challengd grant forthe museum. , based in awarded the $750,000 grant to help fund exhibitionws at thenew museum, on the conditioj that the Museum Foundation raise all but $750,000 of a totapl $6.5 million campaign. The final $1.3 millio n came from more than 1,300 private donors in New Mexicloand nationwide. “The overwhelming support reflects people’sw enthusiasm for this long-awaited, world-class history said Eileen Wells, chairf of the Museum Foundation’s $22 million capital and endowment campaign. The History Museum’s grand openinhg is Memorial Day May 23to 25.
The 96,000-square-foo t museum, located next to the Palacs of the Governors in Santa Fe, is the first museum devoted to New Mexicl history. It will hold more than 800,000 historical documents, photographs and book representing key periods in NewMexico It’s the largest cultural investment ever made in downtown Santqa Fe, according to Museum Foundation The Museum Foundation has launchexd an additional $1 million campaign to raise fundws that will be used to enhances visitors’ experience.
The Foundation provides funding for the Palace of the Governors and New Mexico History as well as the New Mexico Museumof Art, the and Museunm of Indian Arts and Culture/Laboratory of Anthropology. It also supports sevejn state monuments and the Office ofArchaeological