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PETA Urges Donation of Paul McCartney's Childhood Guitar House for Animal Rights Museum
- •PETA has written to Omega Auctions asking for the Liverpool house at 43 Elswick Street to be donated free of charge.
- •The animal rights group wants to convert the two-bedroom terrace where Paul McCartney learned his first guitar chords into an empathy museum.
- •The house has an auction estimate of 150000 pounds to 170000 pounds and is scheduled for auction on October 26.
- •The proposed museum would celebrate McCartney's music career alongside his decades of campaigning for animal rights and the environment.
- •PETA has previously made similar unsuccessful requests to turn other celebrity and historical homes into vegetarian or empathy museums.
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PETA has requested that the two-bedroom terrace at 43 Elswick Street be donated to the charity so it can be transformed into an empathy museum dedicated to Paul McCartney's music and his long-running advocacy for animal rights and the environment.
The house is historically significant because it is where Paul McCartney learned his first guitar chords on an instrument that belonged to his school friend Ian James. The property is being handled by Omega Auctions with an estimated value between £150,000 and £170,000, and the auction is scheduled to conclude on October 26.
Yes, PETA previously approached the sellers of George Harrison's childhood home in 2021, the estate agent selling Charles Darwin's former residence in Ramsgate, and the agent for the Pennsylvania house featured in The Silence of the Lambs, though none of those past proposals resulted in a museum.
