The House of Emigrants in Gothenburg
Harbourside museum and research centre tracing the mass Swedish emigration to America.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the House of Emigrants in Gothenburg starts not with ships but with the sky, in the cold spring of eighteen sixty-seven, when northern Swedish farmers waited for snow to leave their fields. It follows the weather, the hunger and the grain trade of those years toward the harbour outside. Best heard standing by the waterfront, looking out over the river.
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