Gift for Mexican Museum in S.F.

Scott Salazar Meyers, a Modesto housing developer, has given San Francisco’s Mexican Museum a $3-million donation, moving the museum closer to its goal of building a permanent home.

The museum, which was founded by a San Francisco artist, celebrates its 30th anniversary this year, and is one of the oldest institutions of Latino culture in the United States.

Museum director William Moreno said the pledge had reinvigorated the campaign to raise $8 million by year’s end to fund construction of its new building, which would be across the street from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and would be six times bigger than its current home in Fort Mason.