Winterthur Museum announced that it received a $3M dollar endowment from Trustee John L. McGraw and his wife Marjorie. The gift will endow the position of director of musuem collections, currently held by Linda S. Eaton. Eaton, who has been the director of museum colections and senior curator of textiles since 2009, will assume the title John L. and Marjorie P. McGraw Director of Collections.
The McGraw endowment is the museum’s second seven figure donation this year. Alice Carey Brown and W.L. Lyons Brown Jr., of Brown-Forman Brands gifted $1 million in February. Winterthur is using those funds to convert a greenhouse into a 3.000 square-foot horticultural center.
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