Mjellby Art Museum
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Mjellby Art Museum is situated 4 km outside Halmstad
Halmstad
Halmstad is a port, university, industrial and recreational city at the mouth of Nissan in the province of Halland on the Swedish west coast. Halmstad is the seat of Halmstad Municipality and the capital of Halland County...

, Sweden. Mjellby Art Museum is specifically the residence of Halmstadgruppen
Halmstadgruppen
Halmstadgruppen is a group of artists who took their name as all the artists had their roots in Halmstad, where most of them were resident in the area Söndrum. The group consisted of six members....

 (Halmstad group), who's work is often presented here in new formations. Here is a large permanent collection of the group's art. The museum's art gallery shows annually four to five exhibitions of everything from contemporary art to modernism. The museum was founded in 1980 by Viveca Bosson, who is daughter to one of the members in Halmstadgruppen (Erik Olson
Erik Olson
Erik Artur Olson , born 9 May 1901 in Halmstad, married in 1929 to Solvig Sven-Nilsson, died in 1986, a painter, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor, theater decorator, member of Halmstadgruppen. Brother of artist Axel Olson. Olson is represented, for example, at the National Museum and the...

). Viveca Bosson has also written several books about early surealism in Sweden, Halmstadgruppen and GAN (Gösta Adrian Nilsson).

There is also an art gallery showing exhibitions of diverse content - everything from 1900s big-modernists to the current contemporary art.

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