Hasselblad Center
Photography exhibition hall on the ground floor of a yellow-brick art museum at a grand square.
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This guide to the Hasselblad Center in Gothenburg starts with three dates that should have been one, and a yellow-brick museum raised on Götaplatsen for the city's delayed three-hundredth birthday. It follows the architects Arvid Bjerke and Sigfrid Ericson, the sculptor Carl Milles, and a building site racing a deadline. Best heard standing in the ground-floor exhibition hall, then again outside at the foot of the steps.
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