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Based only on the power of this idea, and until now lacking a feasible site, the Museum has raised $8M in philanthropic seed funding. During the last year, as the Museum has worked to obtain development rights to a new location, Parcel 9, the sense of momentum has been growing. We have refined our plans for a dynamic museum experience, built partnerships for a core educational resource for Boston's schoolchildren, begun programming, and designed an architecturally exciting building and community market. All of this in preparation for a capital campaign to build the museum on one of the most historic urban blocks in America.

The Museum building has been designed to offer extraordinary and attractive space for naming opportunities. Given the prominence of the site adjacent both to the Faneuil Hall Marketplace and the Rose Kennedy Greenway, there will be great interest in the building. It will be ideal space for corporate rentals as well as a centrally-located forum for community events.

The power of the site

An independent economic impact study notes that Parcel 9 is very likely the best site for a new museum in the country, assuring its economic viability. With an expected 400,000 annual visitors, the museum will cover 82% of its expenses with admission revenue according to the independent economic impact study. Locating a museum about history in the historic center of Boston adjacent to Faneuil Hall Marketplace and its 14 million visitors guarantees a sustainable institution destined to be an international tourist attraction.

In the end, the subject is us

The names of some of Boston's great philanthropists are well known for the institutions they founded: Henry Lee Higginson, Isabella Stewart Gardner, Joshua Bates. Some of the names are less publicly known, but you can find them prominently chiseled in the doorways of our distinguished and enduring institutions. And many of the names of those who gave to establish great institutions are hard to find except in one respect: their gifts, large and small, have become part of the fabric of the city of Boston.

This is the opportunity offered by the Boston Museum: to take part in establishing an institution that will become one of the vibrant and enriching voices in the cultural life of the city.

Please join us in creating a new legacy - a major educational resource and a place to bring residents and visitors together around Boston's shaping of the American story.

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