Carnegie Birthplace Museum

Andrew Carnegie's birthplace, Dunfermline
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Situated near the centre of Dunfermline in West Fife, at No. 2 Moodie Street, is an 18th-century pantiled weaver's cottage where Andrew Carnegie (1835 - 1918) the industrialist and benefactor was born in 1835. Now a museum, it was extended in 1925 with the construction of the adjacent Memorial Building designed by James Shearer.

Of the £70 million Carnegie gave to charity about £1 million came to benefit Dunfermline where the Carnegie Dunfermline Trust is based. Gifts to the town included the Carnegie Centre, the Carnegie Free Library, the Carnegie Hall and Pittencrieff Park.

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