Bohusläns museum

The initiative to found the Bohuslän Museum came from bookseller Johan Fredrik Hallman in May 1861. He donated objects and books that became the beginning of the museum's collections and library. As early as 1862, the museum changed its name to Uddevalla Museum. From 1864 to 1912, Carolina Christiansson was both the museum's director and curator.

Until the 1950s, the museum's activities focused on Uddevalla, but soon, the cultural heritage of the county and the history merged. In 1977, both responsibilities were formally put under the auspices of the County Museum Foundation in Gothenburg and Bohus County. A new museum building was inaugurated in 1984 under museum director Carl Cullberg in Uddevalla.

From 2006 to 2015, the Bohuslän Museum was part of Västarvet (a joint regional organization for environmental preservation and cultural heritage) but has been run independently since 2016.

Bohusläns Museum is a foundation-owned county museum with its headquarters and main building in the center of the port city of Uddevalla. The purpose of the museum is to show, preserve and inform about the history, nature, and culture of Bohuslän. There is also an art gallery, a museum shop, and a restaurant specializing in the region's food traditions.

As a regional museum, Bohuslän's museum has formulated profile areas in which the history and present of the coastal region and the border region are to be highlighted and where the specifics of Bohuslän's cultural, art and natural history are emphasized. The collection is governed by the document Regional Collection Policy Västra Götaland and the Stewardship Plan for the collections 2017-2021.

Bohusläns Museum's collections include objects, stories, photos, films and archive documents. In addition, the museum has an art collection, archaeological finds, and animal and plant specimens.

The museum publishes its digitized collections, a total of almost 300,000 objects (2023) via DigitalMuseum, Kringla and Europeana.