Mount Pleasant Discovery Museum has raised more than $2 million, structure starting

The Mount Pleasant Discovery Museum is beginning to take shape. More than $2 million has been raised for MPDM toward filling the museum with exhibits and covering operating expenses. “The building is well underway,” said Jennifer Fields, co-founder of MPDM and member of the board of directors. “We’re still in the second phase of the campaign.” The second phase of the MPDM campaign, called “let’s build a museum,” involves raising money to build exhibits, first-year operating expenses and an endowment. As previously reported by Central Michigan Life, the goal of the capital campaign was to raise $1.8 million and $250,000 to cover the first-year operating budget.

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