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Fire Sweeps Through Museum Of History In Kurt Cobain's Hometown Of Aberdeen

The museum in Aberdeen, Wash. featured an exhibition on the city's most famous son, including a couch Kurt Cobain slept on during the fall of 1985 and a bench from outside his home in Seattle.
The welcome sign to Aberdeen, Wash., includes "Come As You Are," as tribute to Nirvana's Kurt Cobain, who grew up in the city. The city museum housing artifacts from his childhood burned down June 9.

On Saturday, a fire destroyed the Aberdeen Museum of History in Kurt Cobain's hometown of Aberdeen, Wash., which included items from his early life.

The Cobain-dedicated exhibit included a couch he slept on at a

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