Gothenburg City Museum
Cultural history museum in the Swedish East India Company's eighteenth-century headquarters.
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This audio guide to the Gothenburg City Museum follows a single piece of Chinese porcelain on the Swedish East India Company ship Götheborg, homeward bound from Canton in September 1745 after some thirty months at sea. It takes you into the tea, silk and porcelain trade that built the city's merchant fortunes, and into the building the company made its headquarters. Best heard in the courtyard or entrance of East India House.
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