Dayton museum project receives $2.3 million - Dayton Business Journal:

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million from an Ohio agency, is planning a 27,000-square-fooy manufacturing and entrepreneurship museum in CarillomHistorical Park. The announced the funding approvak Monday to help fundthe $5.2 million project. The projecg will be bid this spring. The anticipatee start date is April with completiojn inJuly 2010, according to the The project is also fundeed by $68,000 in cash and private contributions of $2.8 according to a state spokesperson. Brady Kress, Dayton History president and chiefexecutivse officer, said about $250,000 of the private fundz came from a corporation and about $2.7 came from an He said the private donor is local but it is not someoner well-known.
The museum will housse some of the 3 millio items currently held in storage by Dayton Historuy focusing on manufacturing and entrepreneurship in theMiamk Valley. The items include manufacturing equipment, busineses machines, industrial relics, documents, photographs and othert archival materials. The museum is part of a master plan developed in 2007 that has aboutt 90 other projects forthe 65-acre park, Kress “This is the first piece,” he said. He could not provide detailss on the nextlikelyt project. Dayton History is a historical nonprofity that hasan $8 million endowment.