© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Two boys at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum look at images that are 48 hours old, coming back from the sun, in Washington, September 1, 2015. The sun’s images, from NASA’s Solar Dynamic Observatory, show four different wavelength
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Amazon.com (NASDAQ:) founder and chair Jeff Bezos will donate $200 million to the Smithsonian Institution, the largest gift since the museum’s founding in 1846.
The Smithsonian Institution, which bills itself the world’s largest museum and includes 19 U.S. museums and the National Zoo, said $70 million of Bezos’ donation will support the renovation of the National Air and Space Museum in Washington and $130 million will help fund a new education center at the museum. The center will be located in a new facility to be constructed on the east side of the museum’s plaza on the National Mall and will be named the Bezos Learning Center.
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