Then, she said, the museum would start to raise the $400,000 or so required to carry out the plan.

More recently, the museum started lending and giving them to institutions.

The museum started planning for an expansion of the facility in 2006.

So, several museums started asking for commissions in the late 1980's.

"This was their full-time job before the museum even started."

The museum will start a public fund-raising drive later this year.

By 1904 the museum had started to receive animal specimens.

His own contemporary-art collection will be used to get the museum started.

The museum wanted to build an extension and started an appeal.

That same year the museum started a project to completely renovate its building.