OHIO Giving Day

Your support for the OHIO Museum Complex helps us provide unique educational programming for Ohio University and K-12 students throughout the region.

The OHIO Museum Complex is a place to learn through play, outdoor programming, and reflection. We use a teaching museum model to enhance science literacy and to promote health and wellness for the Ohio University community and beyond, including those in southeastern Ohio and throughout Appalachia.

Your gifts are essential as we expand collections and research laboratory space. Grant funding provides additional resources for educational programming. 

All gifts matched up to $6,000!

Kelli Kotowski ‘95 and Nancy J. Stevens, Distinguished Professor in Biomedical Sciences and Co-Lead of the OHIO University Museum Complex, will be matching all gifts made to the OHIO University Museum Complex Support Fund during OHIO Giving Day (up to $6,000 available for matched funds). Kelli and Nancy are passionate about the Museum and sharing our amazing natural and cultural history with the world. Join us and double your impact today!

The OHIO Museum Complex boasts an indoor/outdoor museum experience with dynamic exhibit galleries, learning laboratories, and the Outdoor Museum trail system, with waypoints of interest throughout the campus and region. 

The museum complex also features:

• Student research in the collections
• Guest curators and Explorers in Residence 
• Exhibitions that cross disciplines and highlight OHIO’s research and creativity 
• World-class collections, from natural history to fine arts, archaeology to innovation 
• Design Cafés showcasing Ohio University’s research and creative activity 
• A priceless local natural history collection for research and educational outreach 

Your gift to the Museum Complex supports a museum without boundaries between traditional academic disciplines, sparking curiosity, creativity, and problem-solving. Thank you for supporting the Ohio University Museum Complex!