Billionaire Koch gives $35 million to dinosaur museum

5. May 2012, 11:26 UhrArts newsadmin0 comments

KANSAS CITY, Kansas (Reuters) – American industrialist David Koch, a major supporter of conservative causes, said on Thursday his lifelong fascination with dinosaurs drove his $35 million donation to renovate the National Museum of Natural History’s dinosaur hall. The gift was the largest single donation in the Washington-based museum and research institution’s 112-year history, the Smithsonian Institution said. “I’ve had a love affair with dinosaurs since I was a boy,” Koch, who turned 72 on Thursday, told Reuters in a telephone interview from New York, where he lives. …