Museum Attendance Drops in Sweden
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Visits to Swedenâs national museums dropped nearly 20 percent last year after they ended their free admissions policy, Agence France-Presse reported. The culture ministry said that Swedenâs 19 national museums, 16 of them in Stockholm, recorded some 6.5 million visits in 2007, down from around 8.0 million a year earlier. The decline came after Swedenâs government pushed through new admission fees to the museums starting on Jan. 1, 2007, two years after the previous government had removed the fees.
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Scores of Swedish classrooms will have an empty seat when schools reopen Monday after a three-week Christmas break &#151; a grim reminder that a classmate was lost to the tsunami that devastated southern Asia and claimed 140,000 lives.
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As the coffins of the first Swedish victims were brought home, Europe was to fall silent in memory of thousands of its nationals now thought to have been consumed by the tsunamis in south Asia.
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A record 1.2 million people flocked to see an exhibition of masterpieces from New York's Museum of Modern Art(MoMA) in Berlin, which closed its doors on Sunday after a triumphant seven-month run.
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Sweden, still mourning its citizens lost in the tsunami, is grappling with a tragedy with no familiar coordinates.
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Candles burned in many windows across Sweden on Sunday in memory of the victims of Asia's deadly tsunami, as the government offered its distraught population hope by cutting the number of missing by one-fifth. ...
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden More than 800 people in northern Sweden may have cancer as a result of the fallout that spewed over the region after the Chernobyl nuclear accident in 1986.
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LONDON, ENGLAND.-Rhodes + Mann are delighted to present a show of new work from Sweden curated by John Peter Nilsson, recently appointed curator at the Moderna Museet, Stockholm.
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A museum featuring the music, original clothes and instruments of the Swedish pop group ABBA will open in Stockholm in 2008, organizers said on Tuesday.
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Sweden are awarded a 3-0 victory after their Euro 2008 qualifier in Denmark was abandoned when a spectator ran on to the pitch.
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The number of visitors to nature-oriented national parks has been on the decline.
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More than a week after Asia's deadly tsunami, Sweden has revised the number of dead and missing Swedish, according to Radio Sweden on Monday.
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An ABBA museum dedicated to the music, clothing and history of the legendary Swedish pop group and its four members will open in Stockholm in 2008, organizers said Tuesday.
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Sweden is tightening asylum rules that made it the top European destination for refugees from Iraq, immigration officials said Friday.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden  - In a country already plagued by soaring sick leave costs, a new survey has found that 40 per cent of the population thinks it's acceptable to skip work because they feel tired or have trouble getting along with their colleagues. The Swedish government, troubled by the survey's finding, said Friday it planned to launch a national information campaign about sick leave benefits and when it was proper to use them.
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A museum featuring the music,  original clothes and instruments of the Swedish pop group ABBA  will open in Stockholm in 2008, organizers said on Tuesday.
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A dry government budget document has set Sweden's media abuzz with speculation that the country's Crown Princess Victoria and her companion may soon marry.