FLAGSHIP PROGRAMMES
National Network
Sweden
Address
Södra vägen 54, 41254 Gothenburg - SwedenCountry
SwedenCity
GöteborgStreet address 2
Södra vägen 54Telephone
0046702777041E-Mail (2)
anna.lundstrom@varldskulturmuseerna.seWebsite
Click HereYear of Establishment
1999Contact Person1
Rasha ShaabanJob Title 1
Projects Manager / Network coordinatorContact Person 2
Karl MagnussonJob Title 2
Chief of StaffOrganisation Type
Public InstitutionFields of Activity
ArtsGeneral Information
Världskulturmuseerna (The National Museums of World Culture) comprises four separate museums with different thematic orientations, which together span all over the world and thousands of years of human culture from prehistoric times to our world today.
The National Museums of World Culture is a government agency under the Swedish Ministry of Culture. Our mission is to showcase and bring to life the cultures of the world, particularly those originating outside of Sweden.
The National Museums of World Culture (Världskulturmuseerna) is the coordinator of the Anna Lindh Foundation network in Sweden.
The Swedish network receives an annual support from the Swedish Ministry of Culture for holding activities with members of the network and establish cross border collaboration to facilitate partnership for the Swedish civil society. In addition, the Swedish network is supported by the Anna Lindh Foundation through the network support scheme.
The Network is open to institutions, organisations and other partners who adhere to the principles and the mission of the Anna Lindh Foundation which work on the basis of democratic, pluralistic, and multilateral values.
Membership in the Swedish network is open to NGOs; Public institutions, including local and regional authorities; public and private "not for profit" Foundations; other "for profit" partners promoting "not for profit" activities and corporate social responsibility policies. However, the Network is not open to political parties or organizations and projects owned by political parties nor to individuals.
Mission and Objectives
The National Museums of World Culture is responsible for displaying and bringing to life the various cultures of our world, in particular cultures outside of Sweden. Furthermore, the agency is to document and illustrate different cultural manifestations and conditions as well as cultural encounters and variations from a historical, contemporary, national and international perspective. Finally, the agency shall promote interdisciplinary knowledge and various forms of public activities. The agency head office is situated in Gothenburg.
The agency is to document and illuminate the conditions and forms of expressions of other cultures as well as interaction between cultures and cultural variation—historical and modern, national and international. Another task is to promote interdisciplinary knowledge enhancement and various forms of public activities.
Its operations are carried out in Sweden's two largest cities: in Stockholm at The Museum of Ethnography (Etnografiska museet), The Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities (Medelhavsmuseet) and The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities (Östasiatiska museet), and in Gothenburg at The Museum of World Culture (Världskulturmuseet).
As a national museum organisation, our mission includes national and international outreach, in particular in relation to the origins of our collections.
Our vision is a bigger, more humane and more inclusive world.
Main Projects / Activities
Agency activities are carried out at Etnografiska museet/Museum of Ethnography, Medelhavsmuseet/Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities and Östasiatiska museet/Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities in Stockholm as well as Världskulturmuseet/Museum of World Culture in Gothenburg.
The flagship programme of the Swedish network is: Celebrating Our Diversity.
In January 2024, the Swedish network launched Actions for Diversity initiative to support network activities for promoting intercultural dialogue, inclusion and active citizenship.