{"id":265877,"date":"2025-11-01T23:48:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T23:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/265877\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T23:48:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T23:48:08","slug":"memorial-art-gallery-receives-3-million-gift-towards-goal-of-free-admission-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/265877\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Art Gallery receives $3 million gift towards goal of free admission forever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rochester, N.Y. \u2014 The University of Rochester announced on Saturday that a transformational gift of $3 million from Abby and Doug Bennett, in partnership with the Sands Family Foundation, will support efforts to make the <a href=\"https:\/\/mag.rochester.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Memorial Art Gallery<\/a> free of charge to the public forever.<\/p>\n<p>The Bennett&#8217;s and the foundation have committed $3 million to establish the Abby and Doug Bennett and Sands Family Foundation Free for All Endowment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now, it costs $20 to enter the museum if you\u2019re not a member and we\u2019re looking to do away with that so that admission will be free for everyone as soon as they raise enough money for the endowment and we had the good fortune to be able to contribute towards that endowment and offer the first initial chunk of $3 million,\u201d said donor Abby Bennett.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say that once the museum raises $6 million for this initiative, it can permanently offer free admission to all visitors. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/bennetts-sands-family-foundation-mag-free-admission-675292\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Click here <\/a>to read the full announcement.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/13wham.com\/news\/good-day-arc-rochester\/scholarship-gala-at-mag-to-celebrate-black-excellence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Scholarship gala at MAG to celebrate Black excellence<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/13wham.com\/features\/bright-spot\/bright-spot-making-art-accessible-memorial-art-gallery-mag-rochester-sensory-friendly-wheelchair-hearing-loss-vision-loss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bright Spot: Making art accessible<\/a> |<a href=\"https:\/\/13wham.com\/news\/local\/drawing-as-discovery-500-years-of-drawing-and-watercolors-from-the-mag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Drawing as Discovery: 500 years of Drawing and Watercolors at the MAG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>JOIN THE CONVERSATION (2)<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rochester, N.Y. \u2014 The University of Rochester announced on Saturday that a transformational gift of $3 million from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,229,88],"class_list":{"0":"post-265877","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-design","12":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}