PITTSBURGH Carnegie Museum gets $5M gift to expand its dinosaur exhibit

PITTSBURGH (AP) -- The Carnegie Museum of Natural History has received a $5 million donation for the expansion of its dinosaur exhibit.
The Eden Hall Foundation awarded the grant, which matches the largest single donation in the foundation's history, on Saturday.
"We believe that the museum is a regional treasure," Eden Hall program director Sylvia Fields said. "We really believe this can be a first-rate attraction for the city of Pittsburgh. It would be a draw not only for the region, but on a national level."
The grant shows the importance of the $35 million project, museum director Bill DeWalt said.
The project, scheduled to begin next fall, will triple the size of the museum's Dinosaur Hall and will allow the museum to display its full fossil collection.
The museum is the third-largest repository of dinosaur fossils in the world, after the American Museum of Natural History in New York City and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.
"First of all, it's a large sum and second, it's really a leadership grant. It emphasizes the importance of this project to the community," DeWalt said.
The museum also hopes to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars through an auction of artistically rendered Fiberglas dinosaurs.