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Museum of World Culture

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Museum of World Culture
Museum of World Culture
Museum of World Culture
Museum of World Culture
Museum of World Culture
Museum of World Culture
Museum of World Culture
Museum of World Culture
Museum of World Culture
Museum of World Culture
Museum of World Culture
Museum of World Culture
Museum of World Culture
Museum of World Culture
Museum of World Culture
Museum of World Culture
Museum of World Culture
Museum of World Culture
Museum of World Culture
Museum of World Culture
Museum of World Culture
Museum of World Culture
Museum of World Culture
Museum of World Culture
Phone:
+46 10 456 12 00

Hours:
Sunday11am - 5pm
MondayClosed
Tuesday12pm - 5pm
Wednesday12pm - 8pm
Thursday12pm - 5pm
Friday12pm - 5pm
Saturday11am - 5pm


The national Museum of World Culture opened in Gothenburg, Sweden, in 2004. It is a part of the public authority Swedish National Museums of World Cultures and builds on the collections of the former Göteborgs Etnografiska Museum that closed down in the year 2000. Its aim is to interpret the subject of world culture in an interdisciplinary way. The museum is situated next to the Universeum science centre and the amusement park Liseberg, and close to Korsvägen. The museum interprets the concept of world culture in a dynamic and open-ended manner. On the one hand, various cultures are incorporating impulses from each other and becoming more alike. On the other hand, local, national, ethnic and gender differences are shaping much of that process. World culture is not only about communication, reciprocity, and interdependence, but the specificity, concretion and uniqueness of each and every individual. The opening exhibitions of the museum were: No Name Fever: AIDS in the age of globalization Horizons: Voices from a global Africa Sister of Dreams: People and myths of the Orinoco Fred Wilson: Site unseen - Dwellings of the Demons 390 m2 Spirituality
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