33-587: The Andrew Carnegie Birthplace Museum is a biographical museum in Dunfermline , Fife , Scotland , dedicated to the life of Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie , "one of the great Scots of the 19th century.". The museum is operated by the Carnegie Dunfermline Trust and is housed in a category B listed building . The museum site includes the original 18th-century weavers cottage in which Andrew Carnegie
66-431: A 3-D virtual reality, which was introduced at the event. For three important reasons a virtual tour was encouraged. First, for visitors who are unable to travel to Amsterdam they would have access to the exhibits virtually. Second, visitors could better prepare for their visit by visiting the virtual exhibit before attending the physical museum. Last, a virtual reality tour would address the capacity and accessibility problems
99-485: A decade, there were twice as many. Over the years, the building required renovations to manage such a large number of visitors, and it closed temporarily for this reason in 1970 and 1999. To accommodate the growing number of visitors, in the late 1980s the City of Amsterdam proposed a new building be constructed on the corner of Prinsengracth and Westermarkt. This building became a part of the larger Anne Frank House complex that
132-515: A large radio that the people in hiding used until 1943, after which the radio was handed in by the employees when the Nazis began confiscating Dutch radios. The Achterhuis ( Dutch for "back house") or Secret Annex – as it was called in The Diary of a Young Girl , an English translation of the diary – is the rear extension of the building. It was concealed from view by houses on all four sides of
165-578: A new life in Allegheny, Pennsylvania , United States. In October 2019 the museum became the first Scottish institution to win the Family Friendly Museum Award. The museum was one of fifteen selected from over 800 nominations to be placed on a shortlist, and won the award for small museums before becoming the overall winner of the 2019 award. The listed building consists of numbers 2 and 4 Moodie Street and 5 Priory Lane. Carnegie
198-414: A producer of piano rolls, who vacated the property by 1939. On 1 December 1940, Anne's father, Otto Frank , moved the offices of the spice and gelling companies he worked for, Opekta and Pectacon, from an address on Singel canal to Prinsengracht 263. The ground floor consisted of three sections; the front was the goods and dispatch entrance, behind it in the middle section were the spice mills, and at
231-440: A protest outside the building on the day of demolition. The Anne Frank Foundation was established on May 3, 1957 in leadership of Otto Frank, with the primary aim of collecting enough funds to purchase and restore the building. In October of that year, Berghaus Company donated the building to the foundation as a goodwill gesture. The collected funds were then used to purchase the neighboring 265 Prinsengracht house, shortly before
264-533: A quadrangle. Its secluded position made it an ideal hiding place for Otto Frank , his wife Edith , two daughters, Margot and Anne , of whom Anne was the younger, and four other Jews seeking refuge from Nazi persecution. Though the total amount of floor space in the inhabited rooms came to only about 450 square feet (42 m ), Anne Frank wrote in her diary that it was relatively luxurious compared to other hiding places they had heard about. They remained hidden here for two years and one month until they were raided by
297-690: A single person or group of people, and it may also display the items collected by their subjects during their lifetimes. Some biographical museums are located in a house or other site associated with the lives of their subjects, such as Casa Paoli Museum . Other examples of house-based biographical museums are Anne Frank House in Amsterdam , Quinta de Bolívar in Bogotá, Colombia , the Keats-Shelley Memorial House in Rome , Italy , and
330-404: A virtual journey of the museum were brought about. The first virtual reality tour was produced as a CD-Rom and consisted of photographs of an interpretation of the furnished house depicting the 1942-1944 years. In 2004, the www.annefrank.org website was published in six different languages to accommodate international audiences. The 2010 50th anniversary of the museum concurred with the production of
363-838: The Gjergj Kastrioti Skënderbeu National Museum in Krujë , Albania . Some homes of famous people house collections in the sphere of the owner's expertise or interests, in addition to collections of their biographical material. One such example is the Wellington Museum at Apsley House in London , home of the 1st Duke of Wellington , which, in addition to biographical memorabilia of the Duke of Wellington's life, also houses his collection of fine paintings. Other biographical museums, such as many of
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#1732801847186396-667: The American presidential libraries , are housed in specially constructed buildings. Anne Frank House The Anne Frank House ( Dutch : Anne Frank Huis ) is a writer's house and biographical museum dedicated to Jewish wartime diarist Anne Frank . The building is located on a canal called the Prinsengracht , close to the Westerkerk , in central Amsterdam in the Netherlands. During World War II , when
429-597: The Nazi authorities, arrested, and deported to their deaths in concentration and death camps. Of the hidden group, only Otto Frank survived the camps. After those in hiding were arrested, the hiding place was cleared by order of the arresting officers and all the remaining contents (clothes, furniture, and personal belongings) of the Frank family and their friends were seized and distributed to bombed-out families in Germany. Before
462-532: The Netherlands was occupied by Germany, Anne Frank hid from Nazi persecution with her family and four other people in hidden rooms, in the rear building, of the 17th-century canal house , later known as the Secret Annex ( Dutch : Achterhuis ). She did not survive the war but her wartime diary was published in 1947. Ten years later the Anne Frank Foundation was established to protect
495-540: The United States, as well as some puppets from Sesame Street , a television programme that was launched with financial support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. 56°04′04″N 3°27′40″W / 56.0679°N 3.4612°W / 56.0679; -3.4612 Biographical museum A biographical museum is a museum dedicated to displaying items relating to the life of
528-537: The building was cleared, Miep Gies and Bep Voskuijl, who had helped hide the families, returned to the hiding place against the orders of the Dutch police and rescued some personal effects. Amongst the items they retrieved were books and papers that would eventually be compiled into The Diary of Anne Frank . After Otto Frank returned to Amsterdam in June 1945, he was given Anne's diaries and papers and subsequently compiled
561-481: The clothing manufacturing company, the Berghaus Company, bought the row of houses on Prinsengracht and had plans to demolish for and rebuild for their company's growth. Due to public pushback, the demolition was cancelled. A campaign to save the building and to list it as a protected monument was started by the Dutch paper Het Vrije Volk on November 23,1955. The building was saved by campaigners who staged
594-693: The death of Louise Whitfield Carnegie. There are various kinds of exhibits being showcased relating to Natural History, the Arts and the Sciences. Some objects of note include portraits of the Carnegie family and Architectural Drawings of the Carnegie Institute in Pennsylvania. The museum displays were extensively refurbished in 2008, and include details of Carnegie's industrial achievements in
627-540: The museum faced regularly. Additionally, the virtual tour would include parts of the annex that is off limits to the physical visitor. The virtual reality experience of the exhibit today is not an incredible, modern resource that allows users to experience the Anne Frank House experience from their own home. On display at the museum is the Academy Award that Shelley Winters won, and later donated to
660-526: The museum had 1.27 million visitors and was the third most visited museum in the Netherlands , after the Van Gogh Museum and the Rijksmuseum . The house – and the one next door at number 265, which was later purchased by the museum – was built by Dirk van Delft in 1635. The canal-side façade dates from a renovation of 1740, when the rear annex was demolished. It was a private residence until
693-801: The museum, for her performance as Petronella van Daan in the 1959 film The Diary of Anne Frank . The award now sits in a bullet-proof glass case in the museum. In 1998, the Anne Frank Zentrum in Berlin was opened after the completion of a cooperation agreement with the Anne Frank House. Ronald Leopold has been executive director of the museum since 2011 and Garance Reus-Deelder has been managing director since 2012. The museum had 1.15 million visitors in 2012, 1.20 million visitors in 2013, and 1.23 million visitors in 2014. It had 1.29 million visitors in 2016, with ongoing renovations during 2017 marginally reducing visits to 1.27 million; for 2017, it
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#1732801847186726-484: The nineteenth century - in 1821, for instance, a Captain Johannes Christiaan van den Bergh, plaats-majoor der tweede klasse (adjutant third class) resided there. Subsequently, the building became a warehouse, and the front warehouse with its wide stable-like doors was used to house horses. At the start of the 20th century, a manufacturer of household appliances occupied the building, succeeded in 1930 by
759-457: The property from developers who wanted to demolish the block. The entire museum, which occupies the three adjacent buildings on the street front of Prinsengracht 263 to 267, opened on 3 May 1960. It preserves the hiding place (the Secret Annex at rear of 263), with the other buildings expanding the permanent exhibition on the life and times of Anne Frank, and has an exhibition space about all forms of persecution and discrimination . In 2017,
792-415: The rear, which was the ground floor of the annex, was the warehouse where the goods were packed for distribution. Directly above the ground floor were the offices of Frank's employees, with Miep Gies , Bep Voskuijl (known in the early version of The Diary of a Young Girl as Elli Vossen) and Johannes Kleiman occupying the front office while Victor Kugler worked in the middle office. The rear office held
825-420: The remaining buildings on the block were pulled down as planned. The restoration of 263 Prinsengracht began and the building was opened as a museum to the public in 1960. The former hiding place of Anne Frank attracted a huge amount of interest, especially as translations and dramatizations of the diary had made her a figure known throughout the world. Over 9,000 visitors came in the museum's first open year. In
858-454: The two versions of his daughter's diaries into a book published in Dutch in 1947 under the title Het Achterhuis , which Anne had chosen as the name of a future memoir or novel based on her experiences in hiding. Achterhuis is a Dutch architectural term referring to a back-house (used comparatively with voorhuis meaning front-house). However, when the English translation began production, it
891-437: Was a weaver, using a hand loom to produce woven goods, but from 1840, hand looms were steadily replaced by large looms in factories, and weavers were expected to work there. The Carnegie family were advocates of liberalism, political activism and self-education, and this reputation meant that William struggled to find work within the factory system. Thus at the age of 13, Andrew left the cottage in 1848 to go with his family to make
924-450: Was born and a memorial hall added by James Shearer in 1928. Carnegie's wife, Louise Whitfield Carnegie , purchased the cottage in 1895 from William Templeman using a legacy bequeathed to her from her grandfather. Upon the creation of the Carnegie Dunfermline Trust in 1903 the cottage was looked after by the trust and opened to visitors in 1908. Andrew Carnegie was born in the cottage at 2 Moodie Street in 1835. William Carnegie, his father,
957-478: Was born in 2 Moodie Street, and because the cottage was bought in 1895 by Louise Carnegie, it remains largely in its original condition. The exterior of 4 Moodie Street has also been little altered, but internally, it was redesigned to become the entrance to the museum. The memorial building, added by the Scottish architect James Shearer between 1925 and 1928, is linked to the cottages by a single storey passage. It
990-427: Was constructed in 17th century Scottish baronial style with crowstepped gables, and the main hall includes clerestory dormers. This newer construction is listed in its own right, because of its stylistic interest, as are the boundary walls, which include scrolls and thistle motifs on decorative panels. The cottages were originally built in the 1770s. Work began on the construction of the memorial building in 1925, and it
1023-456: Was formally opened on 28 June 1928. The majority of the initial collection items of the museum were donated by Louise Whitfield Carnegie in 1928 and came directly from the Carnegie family homes in the US and Scotland. These included art, photographs and archival materials. Additional collection items, deemed too precious to donate when the museum was established, were bequeathed to the museum following
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1056-403: Was in the process of implementing "The Maintenance and Future of the Anne Frank House" initiative in 1999. This project resulted in the preservation of the annex, front of 263 Prinsengracht, educational and functional purposes of 265 Prinsengracht, and the newly built corner structure that housed the entrance, cashier, cafe, and other amenities. Throughout the 1999 restructuring process, ideas of
1089-431: Was realised that many English-speaking readers might not be familiar with the term and it was decided that a more evocative term (the 'Secret Annexe') would better convey the building's hidden position. Otto Frank's contributions to the diary were such that he is recognized as a co-author. Shortly after the book was published, Otto Frank's employees showed visitors the secret rooms where the families hid. However, by 1955,
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