After moving the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library out of its home earlier this year, proprietors have chosen the next building they want as its next place to stay. And they need $1.5 million in the next three months to do it.

The museum announced Wednesday a purchase agreement has been signed to buy a building at 543 Indiana Ave. across from Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis and the Madame Walker Theatre Center. The museum also announced the capital campaign, which will allow the museum to buy the building and begin renovations. Additional funds will be necessary to build exhibitions and programs.

The museum's former location in the Emile building at 340 N. Senate Ave. — the only physical home during its 10-year life — closed Jan. 5. The lease was up, and the collection had grown too large for the space, founder and CEO Julia Whitehead told IndyStar in January. The museum has Vonnegut's rejection letters, Purple Heart, drawings, first-edition books and magazines with his short stories.

Since then, the museum opened up a small temporary gift shop on the second floor of Circle Centre mall with a few artifacts and education materials about the author.

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Exhibit themes the museum has in mind include Slaughterhouse-Five, freedom of expression, and Vonnegut and jazz. Voter registration kiosks and showings of the vast amount of Vonnegut memorabilia and artifacts are part of the plan. The museum also is discussing a possible first-floor cafe with Bluebeard owner Edward Battista.

The Indiana Avenue building is somewhat of a landmark in Indianapolis, most recently known for a few restaurants that operated there and then closed, including New Orleans on the Avenue and Corner Cantina.

The museum has listed naming opportunities for gifts larger than $50,000 and has received $100,000 toward the project, according to the announcement.