Museum of World Culture
Established | 2004 |
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Location | Södra vägen, Gothenburg, Sweden |
Coordinates | 57°41′41″N 11°59′21″E / 57.69472°N 11.98917°E |
Visitors | 227 248 (2006) |
Director | Margareta Alin |
Website | varldskulturmuseet.se |
The National Museum of World Culture (
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 mythsof the Orinoco
- Fred Wilson: Site unseen - Dwellings of the Demons
- 390 m2 Spirituality
Architecture
The cement and glass building, located on a slope leading up to the Liseberg amusement park, is graceful, compact and modernistic. Its four-storey glass atrium looks out on mountains and woods.[2]
The exhibition halls are in the closed part of the building, facing Södra vägen road. The upper storeys hang freely 5 m (16 ft) over a footpath. A 43 m (141 ft) long section of a display window provides passers-by with a view straight into the largest exhibition hall.[2]
The architects behind the museum, who were chosen after an international competition, were the French-Cuban-English couple Cécile Brisac and Edgar Gonzalez of Brisac Gonzalez Architects.[3]
In December 2020, the
Controversies
In February 2005 the museum decided to remove the painting "
References
- ^ O'Yeah, Zac (8 March 2019). "Gothenburg: A City Built on Rock 'n' Roll". natgeotraveller.in. National Geographic Traveller India. Archived from the original on 13 March 2019. Retrieved 7 June 2022.
- ^ a b c "Världskulturmuseet, Göteborg". sfv.se. National Property Board of Sweden. Retrieved 29 August 2015.
- ^ "Museum of World Culture, Gothenburg". brisacgonzalez.com. Brisac Gonzalez. Archived from the original on 19 September 2015. Retrieved 29 August 2015.
- ^ "Vilka är Sveriges fulaste byggnader? Se hela listan!". Arkitekturupproret (in Swedish). 24 December 2020. Retrieved 2020-12-27.
- ^ Lilja, Mats (3 February 2005). "Dödshot stoppar kärlekstavlan" [Death threat stops love painting]. expressen.se (in Swedish). Expressen. Retrieved 29 August 2015.
External links
- The Museum of World Culture
- Brisac Gonzalez Architects
- Virtual Collection of Masterpieces
- Virtual tour of the Museum of World Culture provided by Google Arts & Culture
- Media related to Museum of World Culture (Göteborg) at Wikimedia Commons