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===Commemoration and tributes=== Chaplin's final home, Manoir de Ban in Corsier-sur-Vevey, Switzerland, has been converted into a museum named "[[Chaplin's World]]". It opened on 17 April 2016 after fifteen years of development, and is described by [[Reuters]] as "an interactive museum showcasing the life and works of Charlie Chaplin".<ref>{{cite web |last=Poullain-Majchrzak |first=Ania |title=Chaplin's World museum opens its doors in Switzerland |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-chaplin-museum-idUSKCN0XF212 |publisher=[[Reuters]] |date=18 April 2016}}</ref> On the 128th anniversary of his birth, a record-setting 662 people dressed as the Tramp in an event organised by the museum.<ref>{{cite news|title=Charlie Chaplins gather in their hundreds to set world record – video|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/video/2017/apr/17/charlie-chaplins-gather-in-their-hundreds-to-set-world-record-video|date=17 April 2017|newspaper=The Guardian}}</ref> Previously, the [[Museum of the Moving Image (London)|Museum of the Moving Image]] in London held a permanent display on Chaplin, and hosted a dedicated exhibition to his life and career in 1988. The [[London Film Museum]] hosted an exhibition called ''Charlie Chaplin{{snd}}The Great Londoner'', from 2010 until 2013.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.londonfilmmuseum.com/south-bank/about-us/ |title=London Film Museum: About Us |publisher=London Film Museum |access-date=3 March 2023 |url-status=deviated |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120828174545/http://www.londonfilmmuseum.com/south-bank/about-us/ |archive-date=28 August 2012}}</ref> [[File:Charles Chaplin St Pauls Covent Garden.jpg|thumb|right|190px|Chaplin memorial plaque in [[St Paul's, Covent Garden]], London]] In London, a statue of Chaplin as the Tramp, sculpted by [[John Doubleday (sculptor)|John Doubleday]] and unveiled in 1981, is located in [[Leicester Square]].{{sfn|Robinson|p=677}} The city also includes a road named after him in central London, "Charlie Chaplin Walk", which is the location of the [[BFI IMAX]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Welcome to IMAX United Kingdom|url=https://www.imax.com/countries/gb/|publisher=IMAX|access-date=22 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150604110826/https://www.imax.com/countries/gb/|archive-date=4 June 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> There are nine [[blue plaque]]s memorialising Chaplin in London, Hampshire, and Yorkshire.<ref>{{cite web|title=Charlie Chaplin|url=http://www.blueplaqueplaces.co.uk/subject/sir-charlie-chaplin-2190|website=Blue Plaque Places|access-date=20 July 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180501143558/http://www.blueplaqueplaces.co.uk/subject/sir-charlie-chaplin-2190|archive-date=1 May 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref> In [[Canning Town]], East London, the Gandhi Chaplin Memorial Garden, opened by Chaplin's granddaughter [[Oona Chaplin]] in 2015, commemorates the meeting between Chaplin and [[Mahatma Gandhi]] at a local house in 1931.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Morton |first=Sophie |date=21 May 2015 |title=Gandhi Chaplin Memorial Garden opened in Canning Town |url=https://www.newhamrecorder.co.uk/news/gandhi-chaplin-memorial-garden-opened-in-canning-town-3027550 |access-date=10 April 2022 |website=Newham Recorder |language=en-UK}}</ref> The Swiss town of [[Vevey]] named a park in his honour in 1980 and erected a statue there in 1982.{{sfn|Robinson|p=677}} In 2011, two large murals depicting Chaplin on two 14-storey buildings were also unveiled in Vevey.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rts.ch/info/suisse/3490412-vevey-les-tours-chaplin-ont-ete-inaugurees.html |title=Vevey: Les Tours "Chaplin" Ont Été Inaugurées |date=8 October 2011 |publisher=RTS.ch |access-date=22 July 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121028101229/http://www.rts.ch/info/suisse/3490412-vevey-les-tours-chaplin-ont-ete-inaugurees.html |archive-date=28 October 2012}} (In French)</ref> Chaplin has also been honoured by the Irish town of [[Waterville, County Kerry|Waterville]], where he spent several summers with his family in the 1960s. A statue was erected in 1998;<ref>{{cite web|url=http://visitwaterville.ie/charlie-chaplin/ |title=Charlie Chaplin |publisher=VisitWaterville.ie |access-date=22 July 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150222040227/http://visitwaterville.ie/charlie-chaplin/ |archive-date=22 February 2015}}</ref> since 2011, the town has been host to the annual Charlie Chaplin Comedy Film Festival, which was founded to celebrate Chaplin's legacy and to showcase new comic talent.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://chaplinfilmfestival.com/the-story/ |title=The Story |publisher=Charlie Chaplin Comedy Film Festival |access-date=3 March 2023|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120824040116/http://chaplinfilmfestival.com/the-story/ |archive-date=24 August 2012}}</ref> In other tributes, a [[minor planet]], [[3623 Chaplin]] (discovered by Soviet astronomer [[Lyudmila Karachkina]] in 1981) is named after him.{{sfn|Schmadel|p=305}} Throughout the 1980s, the Tramp image was used by [[IBM]] to advertise their personal computers.{{sfn|Maland|1989|pp=362–370}} Chaplin's 100th birthday anniversary in 1989 was marked with several events around the world,{{efn|On his birthday, 16 April, ''City Lights'' was screened at a gala at the [[Dominion Theatre]] in London, the site of its British premiere in 1931.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1144&dat=19890417&id=gRwhAAAAIBAJ&pg=7100,2621993 |title=Charlie Chaplin's 100th Birthday Gala a Royal Bash in London |work=[[The Pittsburgh Press]] |location=US |date= 17 April 1989|access-date=22 July 2012 | first=Dan | last=Kamin}}</ref> In Hollywood, a screening of a restored version of ''How to Make Movies'' was held at his former studio, and in Japan, he was honoured with a musical tribute. Retrospectives of his work were presented that year at [[BFI Southbank|The National Film Theatre]] in London,<ref name=NewSundayTimes/> the [[Munich Stadtmuseum]]<ref name=NewSundayTimes>{{cite news|url= https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1295&dat=19890416&id=RK5UAAAAIBAJ&pg=4220,91114 |title=Chaplin's Back in The Big Time |work= [[New Straits Times|New Sunday Times]] |date= 16 April 1989|access-date=22 July 2012 }}</ref> and the [[Museum of Modern Art]] in New York, which also dedicated a gallery exhibition, ''Chaplin: A Centennial Celebration'', to him.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.moma.org/docs/press_archives/6653/releases/MOMA_1989_0020_20.pdf?2010|title= The Museum of Modern Art Honors Charles Chaplin's Contributions to Cinema |date= March 1989|publisher=The Museum of Modern Art Press Release |access-date=22 July 2012}}</ref>}} and on 15 April 2011, a day before his 122nd birthday, [[Google]] celebrated him with a special [[Google Doodle]] video on its global and other country-wide homepages.<ref>{{cite web|title=Google Doodles a Video Honouring Charlie Chaplin |url=http://www.news18.com/news/india/google-doodles-a-video-honouring-charlie-chaplin-366297.html |website=[[News18]] |date=15 April 2011 |access-date=15 April 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160509104424/http://www.news18.com/news/india/google-doodles-a-video-honouring-charlie-chaplin-366297.html |archive-date= 9 May 2016}}</ref> {{Wide image|Chaplin statues.jpg|800px|Statues of Chaplin around the world, located at (left to right) 1.{{spaces}}[[Trenčianske Teplice]], Slovakia; 2.{{spaces}}[[Chełmża]], Poland; 3.{{spaces}}[[Waterville, County Kerry|Waterville]], Ireland; 4.{{spaces}}London, England; 5.{{spaces}}[[Hyderabad]], India; 6.{{spaces}}[[Alassio]], Italy; 7.{{spaces}}[[Barcelona]], Spain; 8.{{spaces}}[[Vevey]], Switzerland|center}}
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