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Dunker Culture House

Coordinates: 56°02′52″N 12°41′21″E / 56.0478°N 12.6892°E / 56.0478; 12.6892
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Dunker Culture House
Main Entrance and Facade

Dunkers Culture House (Dunkers kulturhus) is a museum and art centre located in Helsingborg, Sweden. It is the museum of Helsingborg cultural heritage and is themed to trace history from the ice age to modern day. [1][2] [3]

The facility was designed by Danish architect Kim Utzon and was named after entrepreneur and industrialist Henry Dunker (1870-1962). Funding for the building was provided by the Henry and Gerda Dunker's donation fund (Henry och Gerda Dunkers donationsfond). Henry Dunker who was a local businessman who owned and operated Helsingborg's largest employer, the polymer, rubber and plastics manufacturer Trelleborg. A year before Dunker died in 1962 he was chair of the board of his company Trelliborgs Gummifabriks AB. The business employed 24,000 people with 50 outlets internationally. [4][5]

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Dunkers kulturhus.
  1. ^ "Our History". Tretorn. Archived from the original on 2014-07-14. Retrieved 2014-06-11.
  2. ^ Elisabeth Buchwald. "Kim Utzon". Den Store Danske, Gyldendal. Retrieved March 1, 2020.
  3. ^ "Henry Dunker, 1870–1962". Helsingborgs stadslexikon. Retrieved March 1, 2020.
  4. ^ The Rubber and Plastics Age - Volume 42 - Page 635, retrieved 17 June 2014
  5. ^ "Dunker interests and Trelleborg". trelleborg.com. Retrieved March 1, 2020.

56°02′52″N 12°41′21″E / 56.0478°N 12.6892°E / 56.0478; 12.6892

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