
Imagine the ambitious but foolhardy endeavour of trying to summarize an entire culture to only 100 works, brands and ideas.
Well, that’s exactly what the Swedish government has undertaken and unveiled. After several years of work and a whopping eight million kronor (approx. €727,000 - according to the Sweden Herald), historian Lars Trägårdh handed over the Swedish cultural canon to the Minister of Culture at a press conference held yesterday in Uppsala.