Universeum
National science centre with an indoor rainforest, shark aquarium and hands-on experiments.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Universeum in Gothenburg finds a stranger among the perch and bream of the Swedish lake aquarium, and follows it back to the Göta River that runs through the city. It turns on an old question for nineteenth-century collectors and modern ecologists alike: how do you prove a fish that vanished a century ago was ever truly at home here? Best heard standing at the glass of the lake tank in the Vildmarken exhibition.
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