A Gift from the Culture
"A Gift from the Culture", published in 1987, is a short work of space opera, by the Scottish science fiction author Iain M. Banks. The story is an early venture into the "complex and unusual and very distant" setting of the Culture, which Banks would further develop through various of full length novels, stories, and his essay "A Few Notes on the Culture".
Georg J:son Karlin
Karlin had observed old agrarian society give way to industrial society. He tried to save part of the folk culture by beginning to save the buildings, equipment, furniture and clothes associated with the old folk culture. Kulturen museum was founded by Georg Karlin in 1882. He was its director until 1933. His work has resulted in a huge and unique collection of more than two million items at Kulturen, the second largest open-air museum in Sweden.