Teacher who loved her job at the Australian Museum so much she left it $7 million
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Turn a train into a travelling museum? Put a museum in a box? Chew on seal skin? Engaging young people in science in these ways was unimaginable until a 24-year-old science educator Patricia McDonald started working at the Australian Museum in 1953.
After her death in 2018 at the age of 89, the late Ms McDonald left the museum a $7 million surprise â a bequest to nurture future generations of scientists. From a family of modest means, Ms McDonald had saved and invested her public service salary of 35 years in shares.