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Painting of forest, murals at former Lillhagen psychiatric hospital
Painting of forest, murals at former Lillhagen psychiatric hospital
Photo: Jenny Högström Berntson
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Lillhagen: heritage of psychiatry, memory and art

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Konst av dem som inte passar inte Stort intresse för patientmålningar på Lillhagen Vernissage in the culverts of Lillhagen hospital
Project period
2017 - ongoing
Project owner
Centre for Critical Heritage Studies, Heritage and Wellbeing
Area
Sustainability and environment Health and medicine Culture and languages Education and learning
Topic
Arts Psychiatry

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The aim of the project is to acknowledge the cultural heritage that could be destroyed in connection with the demolition of the former mental hospital Lillhagen, at Hisingen, Gothenburg. As part of this, a public display of the paintings made by former patients in the hospital culverts is arranged.

Lillhagen's murals are important to recognize not only to the patients who painted or viewed them, but also for us today. The murals not only provide insight into patients' minds and artistic expressions, they are also an important example of art as part of psychiatric treatment.
Project leader Elisabeth Punzi.

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