(Courtesy of Griffin Museum of Science and Industry)
The Museum of Science and Industry will officially be renamed the Kenneth C. Griffin Museum of Science and Industry starting Sunday.
The name change comes after a $125 million donation from hedge fund billionaire Ken Griffin. The donation, previously announced in 2019, is the largest in the museum’s history.
“This gift helps us create exhibits of the future geared toward the next generation of scientists and leaders,” MSI President and CEO Chevy Humphrey said in a news release announcing the name change.
The museum will offer free admission and new experiences for visitors Sunday to celebrate its first day as the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry.
With Griffin’s donation, the museum will be launching a digital space named Griffin Studio and an interactive exhibition about music, “Notes to Neurons.”
The donation also helped the museum renovate its space center and offer a new dome theater film experience, “Superhuman Body: World of Medical Marvels.” It also provides a new home for SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft, which took two missions to deliver cargo and scientific experiments to the International Space Station in 2017 and 2019.
Griffin is the founder and CEO of the hedge fund company Citadel. The company was based in Chicago for more than three decades before it announced it would be moving its headquarters to Miami in 2022.
Griffin has a net worth of $37.1 billion, according to Forbes.
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