The County Museum Gävleborg

The Gävleborg County Museum has various health-promoting activities to counteract mental illness. Participants can take part in the museum's exhibitions and then create and reflect on themselves and their lives. The Gävleborg County Museum uses, among other things, art and cultural history as a starting point in health-promoting activities for various groups and they worked for several years with different groups towards a feeling-good perspective. This may involve children and young people within the autism spectrum, young people with mental illness and adults with exhaustion syndrome and/or mild depression. The purpose of the activities is, among other things, to help people return to a more active life and a social context. Many people on sick leave become isolated or isolate themselves. It easily becomes a vicious circle that can be difficult to break. Participating in various cultural activities together with others in a similar situation can be a help back to a more active life. Some of the projects are:
Foyer X | Community art in Gävleborg - a project with the aim of creating a regional and national platform for community art. With the help of various art forms, such as theater, writing and more, people can tell and shape their own stories, in words, images and on stage.
Avtryck - a project where young people from three places in Sweden worked with themes such as the place, the self and the future
Imprint - is a performance where young people stood on stage and spoke bravely and openly about their lives.