August 1, 2025
We take the train to Helsingborg, ferry across the strait and train to Nivå. Walk in beautiful weather to Nivaagaard's painting collection, where the exhibition is:
Bloomsbury Group - The Art of Living
The group existed in Bloomsbury in London from 1905 to the Second World War, an informal collective consisting of writers, artists and intellectuals around Virgina Wolf, such as Leonard Woolf, E. M. Forster, Lytton Strachey, Clive Bell, Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant, Dora Carrington, Frances Partridge, Roger Fry and the economist John Maynard Keynes. They practiced free love.

The main issue is Duncan Grant's "The Bathers by the Pond". The walls have patterns that Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant made for their walls. In addition to paintings, there are design objects, letters and texts. Duncan Grant's erotic motifs.

We have lunch in the garden. One order the food in a cart outside. After lunch we take another tour of the exhibition. The exhibition closes and we take the train back to Helsingør. Going to the former shipyard, a sculpture group passes with four shipyard workers. Simple food at the shipyard food market before returning home.

June 7, 2023
We take the train to Helsingborg, ferry across the strait and train to Nivå. Walk in good weather to Nivaagaard's painting collection, there is the exhibition: "Kunstnerkolonierne Hornbæk & Arild." Danish and Swedish artists who met on both sides of the strait around 1900. It is lunchtime. You order the food inside, we find a free table in the shade outside. It is a pleasantly warm day. It is a nice and interesting exhibition. Many motifs from the local nature. Many artists unknown to us but also famous artists. Taking a walk in the park dominated by rhododendrons, this time there is a lot of bloom. Some about to be overbloomed.

April 18, 2019
Take the train to Helsingborg, ferry and then train to Nivå. Then walk for ten minutes to Nivågård's collection of paintings. There are signs showing the way. In addition to their own collection, which is shown in three rooms, is a temporary exhibition. "All the power to the beauty!", with nineteen century designer William Morris (1834-1896). The exhibition shows wallpapers, furniture fabrics, textiles, glass and books. Also works by artists in the circle around Morris and his wife Jane who took an active part. A lot about his life and thoughts. He eventually became a socialist.

It is a beautiful Thursday morning. Taking a walk in the park dominated by rhododendrons, not yet flowering. A lot in the bud, a few is in bloom. In the restaurant, we eat Easter plate: eggs and herring, homus salad, fish quenelle, baked lamb pate and two kinds of cheese. To that Easter beer.

Decides to walk to Humlebbaek, about four kilometers. Past a brickworks museum, Ringovnen, which is closed. Continue on Strandvägen, no cafes. Picturesque in old Humlebaek. Becomes coffee and beer at Lind's coffee shop on the square at the station.

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