ABSTRACT
This chapter investigates how Malmo Museums has dealt with the challenge of handling and representing the multicultural society in which it is located. Museums became important building bricks in the colonial project, functioning as symbols of power as well as displaying and classifying objects from conquered parts of the world. In the late 1970s a process often referred to as the 'New Museology' encouraged epistemological changes that museums began to implement. The museum, therefore, should ideally no longer be a traditional institution, but a social space where people and cultures could meet and interact. In 2004 the Museum of World Culture was established in Gothenburg, but concern for these questions is also evident in the country's more traditional museums. Malmo Museum was founded in 1841 and was initially a small collection with a focus on natural science. In 2006 the leader of the Liberal Party launched the idea of a Swedish state-funded museum on immigration in Malmo.
