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Bend’s High Desert Museum receives $6 million gift
Updated Feb 25, 2021;
Posted Feb 25, 2021
A recent gift will allow the High Desert Museum to update its Indigenous history exhibit By Hand Through Memory in cooperation with tribal partners. Jamie Hale/The Oregonian
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By David Jasper | The Bend Bulletin
The Sisters-based Roundhouse Foundation is donating $6 million to the High Desert Museum, the largest single donation of its nearly 40-year history, according to Dana Whitelaw, executive director of the Bend museum.
“This gift is a game-changer for us,” Whitelaw said, noting it will help the museum as it enters its next 40 years.
(Update: Adding video, comments from museum, foundation officials)
Sisters-based Roundhouse Foundation s gift to fund art gallery, expanded capacity
BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) The Sisters-based Roundhouse Foundation is awarding $6 million to the High Desert Museum, the largest single donation in the museum’s nearly 40-year history, the museum announced Thursday.
“The museum is coming up on our 40
th anniversary next year, and this gift is really ready to launch us for the next 40 years,” said Dana Whitelaw, Ph.D, the museum s executive director.
Officials said in the announcement that the gift will support the long-term vision for the future of the museum, which includes more capacity for educational programming, immersive experiences, and in collaboration with Tribal partners, an update of the Museum’s permanent exhibition on the past and present of the Indigenous people of the Columbia Plateau,