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New Mexico History Museum receives $1 million gift

The planned New Mexico History Museum in Santa Fe received a $1 million gift from the Messengers of Healing Winds Foundation.

The gift is the largest ever made in New Mexico by the Santa Fe-based foundation, which focuses on supporting environmental programs, animal dignity and fine arts, education and social service projects in New Mexico, northwest Iowa, South Dakota and southern Florida.

The gift will help build exhibitions at the new 95,000-square-foot New Mexico History Museum in downtown Santa Fe, which is slated to open in 2009. The gift has launched the public phase of the Museum of New Mexico Foundation's (MNMF) $22 million endowment and capital campaign for the history museum and other state museums and monuments, called the "Shape the Future" campaign.
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