Sweden Guide
The Bothnian coast
Länsmuséet Gävleborg
Address: Södra Strandgatan 20
Opening time: June– Aug Mon– Fri 10am–4pm, Sat & Sun noon–4pm; Sept– May Tues– Fri 10am–4pm, Wed till 9pm, Sat & Sun noon–4pm
Price: 40kr
Website: www.lansmuseetgavleborg.se
The county museum, LänsmuséetGävleborg, has extensive displays of artworks by most of the great Swedish artists from the 1600s to the present day, including Nils Kreuger and Carl Larsson. That makes this a rarity among provincial museums, and attract visitors from across the country. Also on show are displays on the area's ironworks and fisheries, as well as work by local artist Johan-Erik Olsson (popularly known as Lim-Johan), whose vivid imagination and naive technique produced some strangely childlike paintings.