- Karl Marx House
The Karl Marx House museum ( _de. Karl-Marx-Haus) is the house in
Trier (Rhineland-Palatinate ,Germany ) in whichKarl Marx was born in 1818; it is now amuseum . The significance of the house went unnoticed until 1904, at which point theSocial Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) worked hard to buy it, succeeding in 1928. After the Nazi party came to power in 1933 the building was confiscated and turned into aprinting house.On
May 5 ,1947 the building was opened as a museum of the life and works of Karl Marx. In 1968 it was integrated into theFriedrich Ebert Foundation , a charity foundation closely aligned with the SPD. OnMarch 14 ,1983 , on the 100th anniversary of Marx's death, the museum was re-opened after a year-long renovation that expanded it to three floors.In 2005, the Karl Marx House museum was again closed for three months. The re-inagauration, on
June 9 , was attended by such celebrities asAnke Fuchs ,Franz Müntefering ,Kurt Beck , andHelmut Schröer . The exhibition now also includes the history ofcommunism in theSoviet Union ,China , Central andEastern Europe . The Karl Marx House museum currently receives about 32,000 visitors a year, about a third of whom are tourists from China, for whom it is one of the main attractions inGermany .External links
* [http://www.fes.de/marx/index_en.htm Karl Marx House birthplace and museum]
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