VOA Special English

Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember.

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And I'm Faith Lapidus. This week on our program, we tell you about some celebrity museums.

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Some museums present the best of high culture. These are not the museums we are going to talk about today. We are going to explore places where people can learn about the lives of famous entertainers from the past.

We start with a museum that is not even very easy to find. It opened in two thousand four in a building behind an office park and a food store near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Welcome to the Stoogeum. It honors the old comedy team the Three Stooges.

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Over the years there were more than three Stooges, but the best remembered team was Larry, Moe and Curly. The Three Stooges were popular in movies during the nineteen thirties and forties. They were on television in the fifties and sixties.


The Stoogeum is the headquarters of the Three Stooges Fan Club, with 2,000 members worldwide
They were known especially for their physical comedy -- things like hitting each other over the head while caught in some bad situation.

Fans can relive the group's history at the Stoogeum. About fifty thousand photographs and articles written about the Three Stooges are on display. The museum also has about twenty thousand other objects in its collection.

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