Mark Twain House & Museum

From this house, Mark Twain changed the way the world sees America and the way Americans see themselves. We continue the conversation he began. Mark Twain is an enduring symbol of America. He rose from poverty and suffered hardship and great loss, but he never lost his desire to understand and help his fellow human beings, call out wrongs, speak truth to power, give voice to those who had none, and present America to the rest of the world, warts and all. We preserve and present to visitors from around the world the house from which sprang most of Twain’s …