Dunker Culture House ( sv, Dunkers kulturhus) is a museum and

art Art is a diverse range of human activity, and resulting product, that involves creative or imaginative talent expressive of technical proficiency, beauty, emotional power, or conceptual ideas. There is no generally agreed definition of wha ...

centre located in

Helsingborg Helsingborg (, , , ) is a city and the seat of Helsingborg Municipality, Scania (Skåne), Sweden. It is the second-largest city in Scania (after Malmö) and ninth-largest in Sweden, with a population of 113,816 (2020). Helsingborg is the cent ...

, Sweden. It is the

museum A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make thes ...

cultural heritage and its theme is to trace history from the

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to the modern day. The building was designed by Danish architect Kim Utzon and was named after entrepreneur and industrialist

Henry Dunker Henry Christian Louis Dunker (6 September 1870 – 3 May 1962) was a Swedish businessman and industrialist in Helsingborg, Sweden. His father was the founder of Helsingsborgs Gummifabrik AB ( sv), also known as Tretorn AB, a manufacturer of rubb ...

(1870-1962). Funding for the building was provided by the Henry and Gerda Dunker's donation fund (''Henry och Gerda Dunkers donationsfond'').

who was a local businessman who owned and operated Helsingborg's largest employer, the polymer, rubber and plastics manufacturer

Trelleborg Trelleborg () is a town in Skåne County, Sweden, with 43,359 inhabitants as of December 31, 2015. It is the southernmost town in Sweden located some west from the southernmost point of Sweden and the Scandinavian peninsula. It is one of the ...

. A year before Dunker died in 1962 he was chair of the board of his company Trelleborgs Gummifabriks AB. The business employed 24,000 people with 50 outlets internationally. Dunker Culture House was opened on the 27th April 2002 by Crown Princess Victoria. The total cost for the building, including its interiors, was 300 million kronor.

References

External links

Dunkers kulturhus official websiteTrelleborg official website
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