The headquarters of many banks and businesses are also here, as well as 100 museums including the comprehensive Modern Art Museum and the living history museum Skansen, home to traditional Swedish buildings and craftspeople.

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For the moment, part of that history is still living, in the house behind the museum.

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It doesn't always feel like it, but Taiwan has had some luck in its turbulent history, both as a museum and as the fragments of a living tradition.

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