Thal is a village in the Austrian state of Styria, about 3.2 kilometres west from the edge of Graz, Austria's second largest city. Its population in the 2014 census was 2,240. Thal is most notably the birthplace of bodybuilder, actor and politician Arnold Schwarzenegger, who lived there until 1966 at the age of 19. In July 2011, Schwarzenegger opened his childhood house as the Arnold Schwarzenegger Museum.