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RE: Sailing the Skagerak/Kattegat towards Gothenburg: Gothenburg
What's a kulturhus (second last pic)? Culture house? Museum? I love that there's a kid next to it!
What's a kulturhus (second last pic)? Culture house? Museum? I love that there's a kid next to it!
A "cultural house" usually functions as a theatre, sometimes it has other cultural functions, and there are performances held in this house as well - but this house is very different from the typical thing we'd call a "kulturhus" in Norway.
Alfons Åberg - Albert Åberg in the Norwegian translation, or Alfie Atkins in English, is a series of short illustrated children books, first books came out during the 70s, so my generation got quite a lot of it in our childhood. There also exists animated versions of the books.
This "cultural house" is an experience center for children, themed around Alfons Åberg. It even has an entry in the Swedish wikipedia
We were visiting it some years ago, but I was a bit disappointed, it was quite so expensive and I had too high expectations (we were enjoying the Junibacken in Stockholm immensely with our eldest son when he was much younger than today). Besides we hadn't been reading too much Alfons Åberng with our younger son. Now we've been reading a bit more of it, he doesn't remember anything from his previous visit there, and when he saw the building he instantly wanted to go there.
Wow! Thanks for your explanation! I'm an 80s kid, but have never heard of Alfons Åberg... guess he's more popular around the Scandinavia / Europe area. He looks so cute though, and he's on youtube! Gonna go watch now!