Yale's Peabody Museum Receives $160 Million Gift From Alumnus

WSHU | By Davis Dunavin

Published August 29, 2018 at 10:18 AM EDT

The Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University.

Yale University’s Peabody Museum of Natural History has received a $160 million donation from an alumnus.

Yale says the donation ranks among the most generous in the university’s history and is the largest donation ever made to a natural history museum in the United States. It comes from Edward P. Bass, a Texas-based billionaire who also funded the Biosphere 2 project.

Last year Bass gave the museum $10 million for a lecture hall named after O.C. Marsh, the museum’s founder.

Yale says the donation will help fund the renewal and expansion of the museum. It says the full scope and timeline of the renovation is still unclear. Davis Dunavin, WSHU News.

Davis Dunavin

Davis Dunavin loves telling stories, whether on the radio or around the campfire. He fell in love with sound-rich radio storytelling while working as an assistant reporter at KBIA public radio in Columbia, Missouri. Before coming back to radio, he worked in digital journalism as the editor of Newtown Patch. As a freelance reporter, his work for WSHU aired nationally on NPR. Davis is a proud graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism; he started in Missouri and ended up in Connecticut, which, he'd like to point out, is the same geographic trajectory taken by Mark Twain.

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