Some places are made to be seen. Others are made to be heard.

In Tokyo, Japan, teamLab Borderless: MORI Building DIGITAL ART MUSEUM turns sound into part of the artworks. Described as a museum without a map, the artworks, together with their sound, move out of rooms, relate to other works, influence each other and at times intermingle, creating one continuous world without boundaries.

teamLab, Dark Waves: Born in the Darkness, Return to the Darkness, 2024, Digital Installation, Sound: Hideaki Takahashi © teamLab

In Skåne, the southernmost part of Sweden, you can travel by natural soundscapes. The Map of Quietude maps out places of stillness across Skåne, capturing soundscapes where nature, distance and tranquility are allowed to take place.

For Josefine Nordgren, Head of Brand at Visit Skåne, the longing for quiet places feels closely connected to the way many of us live today. “Many of us live our everyday lives filled with impressions, where we are constantly connected and keeping a high pace,” she says. “Often, we may not even be aware of how much unwanted noise surrounds us during large parts of the day.”

But The Map of Quietude is not about total silence. It is about the absence of unwanted sound. One place Josefine feels captures this especially well is Gislövshammar’s stone quarry, where “you are greeted by the wind in the grass, the birds and the lapping of the stones in the water.”

For those not in Skåne, Visit Skåne has gathered around 26 hours of recordings on Spotify, so you can listen your way into the landscape from anywhere in the world.

Travel is not only what you see. Sometimes it’s the sounds that stay with you.

Photographer, Apelöga