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            <title><![CDATA[Sweden’s Transitional Budget Offers No New Funding for World Culture Museums Despite SEK 35 Million Shortfall]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The transitional budget contains no surprises for culture. The World Culture Museums will receive no additional funding, despite their 35 million kronor shortfall.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2026 08:26:48 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Sweden returns looted Benin artefacts to Nigeria and sacred Kallawaya objects to Bolivia]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Statues once looted from the Kingdom of Benin are now being returned to Nigeria’s Federal Heritage Authority. At the same time, Sweden is returning sacred objects belonging to the Kallawaya people to Bolivia.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2026 14:51:35 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Sweden Democrats Call for 35 Million Kronor to Keep Two Stockholm Museums Open]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The Sweden Democrats believe that the National Museums of World Culture should receive the 35 million kronor needed to prevent the Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities and the Museum of East Asian Antiquities from closing next year. The party also wants the government to change the rental model itself.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2026 10:06:10 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Former Museum Directors Call Proposed Closures in Stockholm ‘Catastrophic’ as Rent Hike Looms]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Olle Granath, former director of the National Museum, questioned why politicians are so reluctant to change the rental arrangements for state museums. “Why are politicians so deaf to this issue? It has nothing to do with party affiliation,” he said.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2026 15:38:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Stockholm’s Army Museum to Close as It Seeks New Premises Amid Rent Hike]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The Army Museum in Stockholm will close this spring after the Swedish National Property Board announced a significant rent increase. But superintendent Lars Amréus says this is not the main reason for the closure. The current premises are not suitable for the museum’s needs. “We want to develop the Army Museum,” he tells TT.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 09:27:13 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[World Museums of Culture urge closure of Mediterranean and East Asian museums over rent hike]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The Swedish Museums of World Culture advocate closing the Mediterranean Museum and the East Asian Museum, according to a report submitted to the government.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 07:36:35 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Stockholm’s Museum of East Asia reopens to empty hall after Qi Baishi exhibition is cancelled]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[After two years of renovation, the Museum of East Asia in Stockholm is reopening. But a cloud on the horizon is that a major project was canceled at the last minute.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 06:11:36 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Cultural hot potatoes await Sweden’s next government]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[There has been silence about culture in the election campaign. But several tough questions await the parties that win the election. Here are some hot potatoes the new government will have to sink its teeth into.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 06:08:51 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Disappointment at the World Culture Museums as concerns grow]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The Royal Swedish Opera, the Dramaten, and three of the central museums will receive approximately 50 million kronor in compensation for the new market rental model in the government's spring bill. However, the bill gives no information about the future of the East Asian or Mediterranean museums.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 06:11:28 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Rent shock awaits - museums threatened with closure]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The Swedish Property Board, SFV, wants to increase the rent for the Ethnographic Museum by 57 percent. Now, the World Culture Museums plan to terminate the agreements and close the Mediterranean Museum and the East Asian Museum in Stockholm.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 10:17:32 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[World Culture Museum Declines U.S. Embassy Agreement Over Diversity Clause]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The World Culture Museum in Gothenburg has decided not to sign an agreement issued by the American embassy.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2025 20:44:29 GMT</pubDate>
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