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State Museum seeks rent, staffing and capital funds to expand education wing, events and digitization
Summary
Emily Gallo, chief of staff at the State Museum, asked senators for rent funding and multiple capital and recurring items to occupy the West Wing vacated by the Department of Public Health, expand classrooms and event space, and support digitization and emergency systems.
Emily Gallo, chief of staff at the South Carolina State Museum, told the Senate budget committee that the museum has multiple budget priorities tied to an opportunity to expand into the West Wing of Columbia Mills after the Department of Public Health vacates space.
Gallo described a request for supplemental rent funding to allow the museum to occupy floors 1 and 4 of the West Wing; the planned changes would add classroom space, a safer bus drop-off and a revenue-generating event venue. “Knocking through the lobby walls of the museum onto the First Floor of that West Wing would allow us to build an entire education…
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