The national Museum of World Culture opened in Gothenburg, Sweden, in 2004. Its aim is to interpret the subject of world culture in an interdisciplinary way. The museum is situated next to the Universeum Science Center and the amusement park Liseberg. The architects behind the museum, who were chosen after an international competition, are the French-Cuban-English couple Cécile Brisac and Edgar Gonzalez. The cement and glass building, located on a slope leading up to the Liseberg amusement park, is graceful, compact and modernistic. Its four-storey glass atrium looks out on mountains and woods.
