The county museum, Länsmuseum Gävleborg, has beautifully designed exhibitions on regional culture through the ages, from prehistory to the ‘golden era’ (mid-19th century) to modern times, with recreated sitting rooms and shopfronts, the life stories of key figures in Gävle’s history, and multimedia augmentation. The excellent Rettig Art Gallery occupies the top two floors and showcases one of the most important collections of Swedish art, from neoclassicism to super-realism and postmodernism, with a special section dedicated to the Gothenburg Colourists.
