The future of the site is still being considered, but some local people hope it will be turned into a museum.

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The house has been turned into a museum dedicated to the young girl, who died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945 aged 15.

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The local government in Suwon, a suburb of Seoul, took control of a toilet-shaped home of a former mayor after his death and turned it into a museum of bathrooms.

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For three centuries, generations of Wings slept in that sturdy wood-frame house before the family eventually turned it into a museum.

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Then, in 1996, Palumbo turned Farnsworth House into a museum.

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Over the period of decades, what was a vibrant display of national capabilities turned into what we now expect to see on the Mall: a museum.

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The estate has been turned into an oddball museum dedicated to Vanderbilt, and a primary attraction is his collection of native arts and fauna (such as hundreds of taxidermy birds, including some extinct ones, displayed alongside shrunken heads and exotic tools).

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