The emigrants' house is located in the old customs house on Packhuskajen in Gothenburg.
The house is part of Sweden's history when the majority of around one million Swedes who emigrated to the United States between the years 1850 and 1920 passed through the premises.
They show exhibitions about immigration and emigration.
Now they will close.
The business has in recent years been threatened, partly by increased rents but also by reduced municipal subsidies.
The rent threat has been averted, but the reduced subsidies remain.
- We have had a good contribution from the city of SEK 1.4 million a year, but now that contribution was halved last year and this year again - and we can not do that, says Roger Bodin, CEO and operations manager for the Emigrants' House.
On March 31 this year, the premises are expected to be emptied.
In the clip, Roger Bodin tells why there was a special value in having the Emigrants' house in the old customs house, and why it is not relevant to move the business to, for example, an industrial premises.
"Have no more money"
According to Ann Catrine Fogelgren (L), chair of the culture committee, the reason behind the halved grant is a decision from 2019.
- Then we made it possible for more associations and other activities to apply for grants.
This means more people applying and thus more people having to share the money pot, she says and continues:
- It is very sad that the Emigrants' house has to close, but we simply do not have more money to contribute.
If we were to give them more in grants, someone else would get less.