Askimsbadet
Shallow sandy bathing beach on a sheltered bay, with a long swimming pier and summer café.
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About this audio guide
This audio guide to Askimsbadet in Gothenburg goes back to an October Sunday in eighteen sixty-five, when a local fisherman looked out over this shallow bay and saw something enormous in the water. It follows two fishermen from the village of Näset and a museum curator, August Wilhelm Malm, who had very different ideas about what the find was worth. Best heard standing at the water's edge, looking out across the bay.
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