Editing Ian Curtis (section)

===77 Barton Street===
[[File:Barton street 77 (2631371178).jpg|right|thumb|77 Barton Street, [[Macclesfield]], seen here in 2008. The living room is to the right of the white front door and the kitchen, where Ian Curtis died, is behind the window to the left.]]

In 2014, the house in which Curtis ended his life went on sale. Upon hearing this news, a fan initiated a campaign via [[Indiegogo]] to raise funds to purchase the house with intentions to preserve the property as a  museum to Curtis and Joy Division.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ian-curtis-museum#/|title=Ian Curtis Museum|publisher=[[Indiegogo]]|access-date=10 December 2016}}</ref> The campaign only raised £2,000 out of the intended final goal £150,000. The money raised was later donated to [[Epilepsy Society|the Epilepsy Society]] and [[Mind (charity)|MIND]] charities.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ian-curtis-museum#/updates|title=Ian Curtis Museum (Updates)|publisher=Indiegogo|access-date=10 December 2016}}</ref>

Upon hearing of the failure of this project, an entrepreneur and musician named Hadar Goldman purchased the property, offering to pay a £75,000 compensation fee on top of the requested house price of £125,000 in order to secure the purchase of 77 Barton Street and thus reverse the transacted sale from a private purchaser, which at the time was already in progress.<ref name="Jonze">{{Cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/shortcuts/2015/oct/04/ian-curtis-house-joy-division-museum |title=The man who bought Ian Curtis's house: 'Joy Division is the modern Rembrandt' |last=Jonze |first=Tim |date=4 October 2015 |newspaper=The Guardian |issn=0261-3077 |access-date=10 December 2016}}</ref> Justifying his decision, Goldman stated he intended the property to act as a Joy Division museum and as a digital hub to support musicians and other artists worldwide.<ref name="Jonze"/><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/joy-division-fan-to-turn-ian-curtis-home-into-museum-20150521 |title=Joy Division Fan to Turn Ian Curtis's Home into Museum |last=Blistein |first=Jon |newspaper=[[Rolling Stone]] |date=21 May 2015 |access-date=10 December 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/may/21/joy-division-fan-plans-museum-after-buying-former-home-of-ian-curtis|title=Joy Division Fan Plans Museum after Buying Former Home of Ian Curtis |access-date=12 November 2017|newspaper=The Guardian|date=21 May 2015}}</ref> As of 2024, this planned museum has not come to fruition.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.cheshire-live.co.uk/news/chester-cheshire-news/ian-curtis-what-came-planned-21945749 | title=In search of the elusive Ian Curtis museum at house he died in | date=23 October 2021 }}</ref>