Ett hus, en dagbok, en hemlighet 
(A House, a Diary, a Secret)  

"History can be misplaced, half-told, or forgotten. Stories can be hidden behind closed doors, crowded among objects, nailed shut in a box never to be seen or understood. What is missing can be a catalyst to search and discover..."
—From the audio tour for Unknown Places in Gothenburg, Göteborg's Stadsmuseum (Gothenburg City Museum), March–April, 2008

Ett hus, en dagbok, en hemlighet is a 17-minute audio tour through back stairways, into closed exhibit rooms, and past hidden objects in Gothenburg's City Museum in western Sweden. It weaves together stories from interviews I conducted with museum staff, area historians, and local residents about unknown—or left out—histories of the city and the museum. It begins with a small model house in a back stairway and ends in a cluttered store room with a blank white screen on the wall. Among a number of scenes, the listener is asked to imagine the building's past when it served as the headquarters of the Swedish East Indian Company, a night of astrological discovery during the company's first trip to China, and a slave auction on St. Bart's. The tour concludes by comparing the museum's empty attic to the lack of information on Gothenburg's newest immigrants and about Sweden's little known involvement in the global slave trade. The tour, both fact and fiction, challenges the listener to consider how history is written, what is left out of national historical narratives and why.