Museum for the ‘Terminator’
By GEORGE JAHN Associated Press October 8, 2011 8:20PM
Austrian-born actor and former Californian governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, right, is welcomed by Austrian chancellor Werner Faymann, left, while German actor Ralf Moeller, center, applauds prior to the inauguration of a museum in the house of Schwarzenegger's birth in Thal near Graz, Austria Friday Oct. 7, 2011. (AP Photo/dapd/ Markus Leodolter)
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THAL, Austria — Arnold Schwarzenegger — the bodybuilder, movie star and ex-governor who’s in the middle of a messy divorce — invoked his life as a model for young people Friday during the formal inauguration of a museum dedicated to him in his native Austria.
Hundreds of fans braved driving rain and chilly autumn temperatures to fete Austria’s most famous living son at the museum, located in the two-story Thal village house where Schwarzenegger was born.
The museum, open since July, is a repository of items that include his first barbell, the metal bed that he slept on as a youth, several life-size “Terminator” models and the polished dark wooden desk he sat behind while California’s governor. AP
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