Naming Opportunities

A variety of naming opportunities exist at the Virginia Museum of Natural History, from endowed curator positions to individual displays.  Giving options include major gifts, planned gifts, and multi-year pledges.  To learn more about naming opportunities at the museum, please contact us at 276-403-8513 or ryan.barber@vmnh.virginia.gov.

$2 million

• Endowed curator position

$1 million

• NAMED – Harvest Foundation Hall of Ancient Life

$500,000

• Special Exhibit Hall

$250,000

• NAMED – Lee & George W. Lester, II How Nature Works gallery
• NAMED – Mr. & Mrs. L. Dudley Walker Lecture Hall

$150,000

• Plaza
• Eeobalanoptera whale cast – Hall of Ancient Life
• Cera the Triceratops
• Clawd the giant ground sloth (Lobby)
• Distance Learning Center
• NAMED - Estate of William F. Carter & Ella Cousins Carter Allosaurus skeleton cast - Harvest Foundation Hall of Ancient Life

$100,000

• Pollinator garden
• Main Lobby
• Museum Store and PALEO Café 
• How Nature Works: Rocks 
• How Nature Works: Life 
• Fossil Overlook
• Teacher Resource Center
• NAMED – Dr. Richard L. Hoffman Recent Invertebrates Lab

$75,000

• Uncovering Virginia – Solite 
• Uncovering Virginia – Grundy 
• Uncovering Virginia – Carmel Church 
• Uncovering Virginia – Saltville 
• Archaeology Lab
• NAMED – Bassett Furniture Foundation Graham-White exhibit
• NAMED – Kitty Sue & Clyde Hooker Chippokes exhibit

$50,000

• Dinosaur and fossil animal (Vertebrate Paleontology) Storage 
• Fossil shell (Invertebrate Paleontology) Storage 
• Pickled animal (Wet Biology) Storage 
• Bugs and bones (Dry Biology) Storage 
• "Dirty” Lab
• NAMED – Richard P. Gravely, Jr. Archaeology Collections Storage
• NAMED – Charity League of Martinsville-Henry County Classroom
• NAMED – Claude Moore Charitable Foundation Classroom
• NAMED – George & Jean Adams Earth Sciences Lab
• NAMED – Elster Foundation Vertebrate Paleontology Lab
• NAMED – Hooker Furniture Discovery Reef
• NAMED – Mammalogy Lab – In Memory of Mattie H. and Irving M. Groves, Sr. by their Grandchildren Smith and Gael Chaney
• NAMED – Suzanne M. Lacy Education Center

$25,000

• Invertebrate Paleontology Lab
• Marine Biology and Bryozoan (moss animal) Lab 
• Molecular Analysis lab
• Specimen preparation lab
• Pteranodon
• Sinistra whale skull (Hall of Ancient Life) 
• Catering Kitchen
• NAMED – Column case – In Appreciation of and to Honor All Virginia Teachers Past, Present and Future
• NAMED – Column Case – In Honor of Nancy L. Barnett
• NAMED – Column Case – In Honor of Caroline, Hunter, Jacob, J. B. and Caroline Frith and Peyton Drane by the J. Burness Frith Family
• NAMED – Column Case – In Honor of Gael Chaney
• NAMED – Column Case – In Memory of Jerry S. Chaney, given by Ruth G. Chaney
• NAMED – Column Case – The Wilbur S. Doyle Family
• NAMED – Column Case – Ralph and J. D. Lester
• NAMED – Column Case – Will & Susan Pannill

$10,000

• Therapod dinosaur mural (Hall of Ancient Life)
• Whale pod mural (Hall of Ancient Life) 
• Moose
• Tiger
• Black Bear and Cubs
• Arctic Fox
• Sea Turtle
• Corny the Corn Snake
• Sheldon the Turtle
• Cockroach colony

$10,000 

Endow some VMNH Secrets. Contact us at 276-634-4163 or information@vmnh.virginia.gov to learn more…

1. How do we make a skeleton?
2. VMNH has Southside Virginia's largest chamber of horror... 
3. Where do we store secrets yet unlocked? 
4. We have many ones-of-a-kind... This one is our biggest...
5. How did we find an animal locked in stone? 
6. We have a 750-legger...
7. We have a gem of a specimen...
8. We have true crime scene first responders...