The museum is situated next to the Universeum science centre and the amusement park Liseberg, and close to Korsvägen.

World culture is not only about communication, reciprocity, and interdependence, but the specificity, concretion and uniqueness of each and every individual."

The opening exhibitions of the museum were: The cement and glass building, located on a slope leading up to the Liseberg amusement park, is graceful, compact and modernistic.

A 43 m (141 ft) long section of a display window provides passers-by with a view straight into the largest exhibition hall.

The artist and the curator had received numerous death threats from Muslims saddened and frustrated over the Koran quotations which were featured in a corner of the painting.