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Sunday, February 7, 2016

"Kulturtanter"


The Swedish expression "kulturtant" is difficult to translate.  I tried, I asked English speaking friends and could not get a good translation.  Cultur aunt?  Cultur women? Female Cultur afficionado?   nothing expresses these important women who keep up the visitor numbers to museums, who buy books, who visit book readings, who listen to lectures, who take study trips abroad, who enjoy esthetics in their homes and in their warderobe.   Some of them accept this nickname gladly, many feel insulted by it.  

Thinking of it - I am probably called kulturtant behind my back.  Does not faze me, because I am occupied looking at a painting!


Happiness is to discover a newly opened museum in Stockholm.  Find out for yourself .....