As a natural history museum, our explorations of the world around us allow us to reconstruct the past, understand the present and, using what we have learned, plan wisely for our future.

One of the Centennial Campaign’s most compelling goals is to better use the resources of this amazing institution to invite the community we serve — families, students, individuals of all ages — to join the quest for a deeper understanding of the natural world and our place within it. The transformation of our facilities will allow us to achieve this goal, creating a unique and powerful combination of world-class science, innovative education programs and engaging visitor experiences that will inspire the next generation of scientists and scientifically well-informed citizens.

looking aHeadThe new Museum will enable us to make better connections with our visitors by bringing science to life. Our collections, discoveries and the research conducted by our scientists will no longer be hidden in the basement, but will become a dynamic part of the visitor experience.

Science Studios — flexible spaces that will serve as classrooms, demonstration areas, informal learning centers and more — will be integrated into the exhibit galleries and feature views into our active research spaces, allowing us to deliver more impactful education programs. Distance learning programs will be broadcast from locations throughout all of the exhibit galleries, delivering real science to students across the country.

Our new facilities will better protect and preserve our collections. The exhibits will connect visitors with nature and the beauty of Ohio’s natural areas —

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This is an exciting time at The Cleveland Museum of Natural History. In June, we celebrated the groundbreaking of our new Perkins Wildlife Center & Woods Garden. This marked the first of many milestones yet to come in our $150 million Centennial Campaign to transform the Museum for our 100-year anniversary in 2020.

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Science Studios will be integrated into the new exhibit galleries.

raising awareness of the need to conserve and preserve these unique treasures. New lab spaces will better support our curators’ important work. Windows into our labs will offer a rare look into science, sparking the imaginations of students and encouraging them to consider careers in STEM fields.

In these ways, we are truly building for the future — and you are making this possible. Thank you! Because of your generous support, the Museum will be able to tell

the story of our past while inspiring visitors of all ages to actively explore the natural world and develop a deeper understanding of who we are, where we come from and how we can work together to build for a healthier, more sustainable future.

Best,

Executive Director and CEO

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From left to right: James Hambrick, co-chair of the Museum’s capital campaign; Evalyn Gates, executive director and CEO; Chace Anderson, president, board of trustees and co-chair of the capital campaign; Mike Dovilla, state representative, District 7; Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson; and Kevin Conwell, Ward 9 councilman.

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From left to right: Kristie Kohl, Marge Moore, Fred Floyd, Judith McMillan, Sally Sears and Jon Grimm.

From left to right: Matt Dolan, Jack Kohl and Molly Perkins listen to the speakers’ remarks during the groundbreaking ceremony.

Following the ceremony, guests gathered on Wade Oval to enjoy a lunch catered by Zack Bruell Catering with entertainment provided by The Luckey Ones.

More than 150 guests attended the exciting groundbreaking ceremony for the Museum’s new perkins Wildlife Center & Woods garden on June 15. perkins marks the beginning of the Museum’s Centennial Campaign project that will expand and renovate the Museum’s campus for its 100-year anniversary in 2020.

the Museum’s leadership, campaign co-chairs, and Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, shared inspiring remarks about the vision for the new Museum through their personal connections with the nearly century-old institution.

the new perkins Wildlife Center & Woods garden will be a vibrant and intimate outdoor gallery shared with native plants, animals and birds. it will allow visitors to be immersed in nature while remaining in the city, to see native ohio plant species and animals up close, and to interact in exciting ways with these living animal ambassadors.

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Executive Director and CEO Dr. Evalyn Gates and Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson take a moment before the beginning of the ground-breaking ceremony.

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“Perkins tells the story of living life,” said Harvey Webster, director, wildlife resources. “It’s a year-round outdoor gallery that promotes an awareness of nature, appreciation and conservation of Ohio wildlife and the living communities upon which wild creatures depend.”

Perkins has existed on the Museum’s campus since 1970 as a loving memory for Ralph L. Perkins II. “My brother Ralph really understood nature,” said Molly Perkins, Ralph’s sister. “He was always outdoors — fly fishing, hiking and exploring the natural world that surrounds us.”

As part of Phase 1 of the Museum’s Centennial Campaign, Perkins will relocate to the south side of the Museum’s campus.

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Its new hillside location creates compelling and engaging experiences for wildlife and people. Coyotes, red foxes, bobcats and raccoons will have access to an overhead “trail way” system — on rotating days. Our Museum will be the second “zoo” in the country to use this state-of-the-art approach.

“Using these overhead trail ways, the animals can walk over the visitor pathway to travel from one area to another,” said Webster. “The ability to move around is enriching for the animals and compelling for visitors.”

The new Perkins design follows the natural topography. Above the ground, visitors can view birds flying in the Upper Aviary. Below, a pathway will meander through the wetlands and loop around into the new Otter Habitat. Here, visitors can peek their heads into the otter pool for an “underwater” encounter with the otters.

Each of the animals in Perkins is unable to live in the wild. “Here, we enrich the animals’ lives with the care we provide. The animals also become ambassadors for our education programs,” said Webster.

In fact, the Museum was the first institution in the world to successfully breed bald eagles by means

perkins: a Story of Hope for the Future

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The new Perkins design follows the natural topography. Above the ground, visitors can view birds flying in the Upper Aviary. Below, a pathway will meander through the wetlands and loop around into the new Otter Habitat.

The new enlarged Otter Habitat gives visitors the chance to interact and get a close-up look at the playful, aquatic mammals. The area also features a new outdoor amphitheater that provides an opportunity for expanded public programs.

of artificial insemination in the early 1980s. Through the Museum’s Bald Eagle Breeding Program, eaglets were hatched at the Museum and fostered into wild nests contributing to the successful recovery of eagles in this region.

“The lesson learned is that we can create a world that accommodates humans, native Ohio animals and plant life,” said Webster.

“If hunted, persecuted and poisoned, animals and plant life can become extinct. We teach conser-vation and the reasons why it is important to protect and sustain our natural world.”

The current Perkins closed this fall. In preparation, staff and volunteers removed native plants and

flowers from the Woods Garden and entrusted them to “foster” homes. The plants will eventually return to the new Perkins landscape. All of the animals will remain on campus, carefully cared for during the transition.

“Perkins is a story of hope,” said Webster. “When we humans work together to solve problems, we can

save an endangered species, preserve our wetlands and make the natural world a better place for many generations to come.”

it’s summer in perkins. the sun is shining. a gentle breeze is dancing in the air. Birds are singing and the sandhill cranes are trumpeting in the distance.

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Medical Mutual of Ohio, the oldest and largest health insurer based in Ohio, recently agreed to commit $1 million toward the Centennial Campaign and Museum.

“Medical Mutual is proud to support The Cleveland Museum of Natural History’s expansion project and to preserve and enrich the Museum’s scientific and educational endeavors,” said Rich Waldron, senior vice president of provider engagement at Medical Mutual and a Museum trustee.

Eaton, another long-time partner of the Museum, has also made a significant commitment to the Centennial Campaign.

“For years, the Museum has done an outstanding job of providing science excellence for students and our community,” said Cindy Brabander, executive vice president and chief human resources officer at Eaton and a Museum trustee. “In supporting the transformation project, the Museum can better use its resources to create more innovative science programs that will inspire the next generation of scientists,” said Brabander.

The Cleveland Foundation’s generous $600,000 grant toward Phase 1 of our Centennial expansion and renovation project supports both the new Perkins Wildlife Center & Woods Garden and the public West Garden along Martin Luther King Jr. Drive and East Boulevard.

To date, the Cleveland Foundation has provided $750,000 in support for this project.

“The Cleveland Foundation is a strong supporter of The Cleveland Museum of Natural History and their Centennial project,” said Ronn Richard, president and chief executive officer of the Cleveland Foundation. “The Museum makes important contributions to our community through its science education programs, conservation efforts and involvement in the University Circle community. I personally support this project and wish the best to the Museum as it prepares for its centennial celebration in 2020.”

“We are honored and grateful that the Cleveland Foundation is one of our Centennial Campaign partners,” said Dr. Evalyn Gates, executive director and CEO. “Their longstanding partnership and support of the Museum helps us achieve our mission to inspire a passion for science, nature and sustainability within our community.”

Medical Mutual and eaton Join growing list of Corporate partners that Support the Centennial Campaign

Cleveland Foundation awards $600,000 grant for perkins Wildlife Center and the West garden

Renderings of the new Astronomy and Cosmology Gallery (right) and the Mammals Gallery (top), that are part of the Museum’s Centennial Campaign project.

The rear entrance of the Museum will be a welcoming gateway for visitors coming to University Circle. The popular Viktor Schreckengost sculptures of a mammoth and mastodon will be installed on a 32-foot-high, freestanding limestone wall along Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in a new West Garden.

Medical Mutual and Eaton join the growing list of corporate leaders that support the Museum’s Centennial Campaign including:

• Parker Hannifin• Lubrizol• PNC• The Sherwin-Williams Company

Parker Hannifin is the lead sponsor of the new Dinosaur Gallery (see page 6).

To learn more about the Museum’s corporate programs, contact Holly Morgan at 216-231-2138, or email her at hmorgan@cmnh.org.

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For years, the Cleveland Museum of Natural History has been akin to your grandparents’ house: full of wonderful, enlightening, even beloved treasures, but with some at risk of damage from being hidden away in storage nooks and crannies.

So there should be applause for Museum Director Evalyn Gates’ plan to modernize and expand the 230,000-square-foot museum — to turn its dark, jumbled interior to a lighter, 30-percent-larger space designed to showcase the museum’s best features, including its eye-opening dinosaur exhibits and fascinating laboratories. The first phase is to begin this spring and the third and final phase could be finished by 2020.

The Euclid Corridor Design Review Committee and the City Planning Commission will review the plans in March. City planners will decide whether the project gets a building permit for the first phase of construction.

Done well, the $150 million construction project will help the venerable museum, opened in 1958 and considered one of the top 10 natural history museums in the United States, give the public a better understanding of the history of the Earth in a building up to the task of doing just that.

The museum already has raised $50 million, including the $20 million it needs to begin the first phase this spring. That phase will include a 300-square-foot parking garage off East Boulevard and a new Perkins Wildlife Center. The museum still needs to raise $100 million to complete the project and bring the structure to 21st-century standards.

That means a more cohesive building plan, more interactive and updated exhibits and a new two-story gallery for fossilized and facsimile dinosaurs that will make them visible to the public on Wade Oval Drive.

And the museum is getting more than cosmetic changes. With 30 different mechanical rooms controlling the heating and cooling, the museum has barely adequate climate control to protect and preserve ancient organic and inorganic specimens that are sensitive to temperature and humidity changes, said Gates. That’s hardly ideal. The museum must protect its many rare artifacts.

The plan will complete the evolution of the Museum of Natural History, expanded several times over the years, from its original humble building to a stunning institution able to serve the public for another 50-plus years. We can’t wait.

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The Plain Dealer applauds the Museum’s $150 million expansion and renovation project in the following March 2 editorial.

“…space designed to showcase the museum’s best features, including its eye-opening dinosaur exhibits and fascinating laboratories.”

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this summer, the Centennial Campaign project team has been working on the designs for the Museum’s nine new exhibition galleries that are part of phase ii of the project.

While Phase II does not begin until 2016, the designs illustrate what the exhibit galleries will look like — and how the Museum’s collections, research and discoveries will be showcased and shared with the public.

In the new Human Origins Gallery, the world- renowned research and discoveries of Dr. Yohannes Haile-Selassie, curator of physical anthropology, and the museum’s researchers in the field of human evolution will be highlighted. This gallery will walk visitors through 8 million years of hominin evolution and help them understand our origins — how we evolved — and our place in the natural world today.

Visitors will be invited to look, explore and discuss these discoveries through fossils, early tools and an immersive, multi-sensory interactive theatre.

Inside the theater, visitors will travel to the other side of the globe to the Woranso-Mille area in Ethiopia, Africa where Haile-Selassie conducts his fieldwork. Here, visitors will feel the heat of the desert region and be able to see what it’s like to be a field paleontologist. They will look for fossils while surrounded by the sights and sounds of Ethiopia’s wildlife. And they will learn about the science — and hard work — that’s behind the thrill of a new discovery.

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In the spectacular two-story Parker Hannifin Age of Dinosaurs Gallery, there will be massive dinosaur displays, fossils covering several hundred million years, scientific research and discoveries by Museum scientists.

new exhibit galleries will Showcase Museum’s Scientific discoveries

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The Dinosaur Gallery (above), sponsored by Parker Hannifin, will cover several hundred million years of prehistoric life, including the work of Museum scientists, such as Curator of Vertabrate Paleontology Dr. Michael Ryan and Curator of Paleobotany and Paleoecology Dr. Denise Su.

Visitors will learn about the role the Museum played in uncovering the fossils of individual dinosaurs, including the discovery of Haplocanthosaurus.

The gallery will also focus on the work of Dr. Michael Ryan, curator of vertebrate paleontology and leading expert on horned dinosaurs and his Southern Alberta Dinosaur Project.

They will also learn about the research of Curator of Paleobotany and Paleoecology Dr. Denise Su and her team.

Adjacent to the gallery is the paleontology preparation lab, showing how fossils are found and specimens prepared. Visitors will also have the chance to interact with docents and volunteers to learn more about the process and the ongoing fieldwork of our world-renowned scientists.

Both galleries are an example of how the Centennial Campaign enables the Museum to better showcase its science and to make it more accessible, relevant and inspiring to our community for generations to come.

The Human Origins Gallery will feature the Museum’s research and discoveries in human evolution. This includes the recent discovery of australopithecus deyiremeda, a newly discovered human ancestor dating back 3.3 to 3.5 million years ago by Dr. Yohannes Haile-Selassie.

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by Julia Arnold-Hess

an 11-hour Jeep ride across the remote, weathered landscape of northern ethiopia took donor CJ abood to a place of her dreams. it was the culmination of a personal journey that began years before. abood, a Brecksville mother of three young boys, wanted to explore a new career path.

She enrolled in college to study French — a passion of hers — when classes in natural science unexpectedly grabbed her attention.

“I took more and more science classes and began asking the question, ‘Where can I learn more?’” said Abood.

She heard about the Museum’s docent program and began the months-long training process in 2008. Once she became certified, she knew she had found her true passion.

“I thought science was fascinating. I all but abandoned French,” Abood said. She finished out the semester and devoted herself to the Museum full time. In 2009, Abood joined the Women’s Committee and just a few years later became its president. Under her leadership, the committee raised over $173,000 for the Museum through its biannual benefits.

Abood and her husband, David, are personally committed to the future of the Museum. Their belief in the importance of science led them to contribute to the Centennial Campaign.

“Helping people engage in science is worth the investment, and the Museum is doing great science,” Abood said.

an ‘inCrediBle’ experienCe

Endlessly curious and energetic, Abood wanted more than the Museum offered within its walls. The opportunity to travel to Ethiopia in Africa with Museum staff was impossible to resist, so she seized it.

In January 2015, Abood joined a group of 14 people including trustees, Executive Director and CEO Dr. Evalyn Gates, Dr. Yohannes Haile-Selassie and Dr. Andy Jones, for two weeks in the diverse, richly storied country in East Africa.

Abood says that her children (now ages 13, 16 and 18) fretted about her traveling to a part of the world that can be volatile, even dangerous.

“My kids were worried about me, but they knew [going to Africa] was a dream of mine,” she said.

“My husband was like, ‘Do what you love.’”

Visiting Ethiopia, a country that held her fascination ever since she wrote a paper about it in college, did not disappoint.

“I’m an adventurer and a thrill seeker,” said Abood. “I had great expectations before I went, and the experience actually over-delivered.”

The group toured throughout Ethiopia, visiting many cities, churches, museums and historical places. For Abood, the highlight of the trip was the bumpy Jeep ride to the actual site where “Lucy” was discovered some 41 years earlier.

Under the watchful eyes of baboons (“There are baboons everywhere, just like squirrels in Ohio,” Abood said), her caravan trekked to the site near Hadar in the Afar region. They were accompanied by several local citizens who were also interested in visiting the remote area where the discovery took place.

Abood wanted a photograph taken of herself with Drs. Gates and Haile-Selassie in front of the plaque marking the site. Without asking, the locals decided to pose with them in the photo.

“In Africa, the locals just walk up and get into a photo while you’re taking it. I don’t know why,” Abood said. She chalks up the photobombing as part of the experience, adding that the warmth of the Ethiopians surprised her.

Returning home to the Museum she loves, Abood finds new layers of meaning in the collections and displays.

“[The trip] solidifies for me that it’s real, part of our ancestry. Truly, it was incredible,” she said.

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Visiting the remote Hadar site in northern Ethiopia where Lucy was discovered 40 years ago is CJ Abood (left), Dr. Yohannes Haile-Selassie, curator of physical anthropology (seated front center), and Dr. Evalyn Gates, executive director and CEO of The Cleveland Museum of Natural History (right). Two unidentified locals also joined the group for this photo.

Abood and her husband, David, are personally committed to the future of the Museum. Their belief in the importance of science led them to contribute to the Centennial Campaign.

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The current Museum campus (left) will be transformed into the new Museum campus (right). Notable changes include a new wing for the exhibit galleries, science studios and collections. A new Perkins Wildlife Center will be built on the south side of the campus. A three-story attached parking garage will be built along East Boulevard, with an entrance from Wade Oval. The $150 million expansion and renovation project will transform and reinvent the Museum by 2020 — 100 years after the institution was founded.

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