Dunkers Kulturhus is the cultural anchor of Helsingborg's waterfront — a long, low building of copper and glass designed by Kim Utzon (son of the Sydney Opera House architect Jørn Utzon) and opened in 2002. It houses the city museum, the city art gallery, and a concert venue under one roof, and its café terrace sits right on the harbour with an unobstructed view of Denmark.
The permanent exhibition on Helsingborg's history is genuinely good, covering the medieval toll-collecting fortress, the industrial rise powered by Henry Dunker's rubber and shoe industries, and the city's twentieth-century transformation. Henry Dunker, whose philanthropy funded the building, made his fortune here and left behind a cultural infrastructure that punches well above a city of this size.