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Museum of World Culture
Ethnographic museum of global cultures, known for confronting the looted origins of its own collection.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Museum of World Culture in Gothenburg follows Sven Karell, Sweden's consul in Lima in the early nineteen thirties, and the ancient burial textiles from Peru's Paracas desert that ended up in this city's collection. It touches the Peruvian archaeologist Julio Tello, the looting of a necropolis, and what decades of display did to cloth that had survived two thousand years underground. Best heard in the entrance hall before you head into the galleries.
This audio guide was created using AI.