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Schwarzenegger Museum in Austria to Close

AP
08/31/05
chicagotribune.com

GRAZ, Austria -- A museum displaying training equipment once used by former bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger was due to close Wednesday because of financial problems, officials said.

The collection of Schwarzenegger memorabilia, which opened in 1997 when the former actor ("Terminator" films) turned 50, also includes photos and paintings.

It is tucked into a corner of a fitness center in the Arnold Schwarzenegger Stadium in Graz, a southern Austrian city near the California governor's home village of Thal.

The fitness center and museum will close because of financial problems, an administrator at the center said. The official said a letter had been sent to Schwarzenegger asking for financial help, but the letter wasn't answered.

Susanne Hoeller, an official at the Graz tourism office, said that although the privately run museum didn't attract large crowds, it was a "pity" for the city to lose its only Schwarzenegger site.

Hoeller said the collection will be stored and might one day be displayed again.

Schwarzenegger was born in 1947 in Thal just outside Graz, where he began his bodybuilding career. He emigrated to the United States in 1968 and became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1984, but has retained his Austrian citizenship.

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