$35 Million Gift for Smithsonian Dinosaur Hall

on 3 May 2012, 2:30 PM |
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Facelift. The Smithsonian’s dinosaur exhibit in Washington, D.C., will be renovated and renamed thanks to a new gift.
Credit: Chip Clark, Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History

What began in 1910 as the Hall of Extinct Monsters at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History will now become a new dinosaur exhibit named after David H. Koch. The Smithsonian announced today that Koch, a wealthy businessman and philanthropist, has donated $35 million of the $45 million needed for the renovation of this exhibit.

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