It has been an international start at the Saab Car Museum. During the first month of the year, our visitors have come from Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, England, Spain, Japan, Ukraine, Italy and China, among others.

One of the visitors from Norway was the merited artist Terje Risberg. He had left his home in the Oslo area in the morning, with a gallery in Stockholm as his final destination. There were two reasons why Risberg took the significant detour via Trollhättan.

– I have always wanted to visit the museum and have tried before when passing through Trollhättan. Without success, and it was my own fault. It has been closed, so I could only look in through the windows, he says with a laugh.

The second reason for the visit was Risberg's art project "Automemento," which is about the car and how it has changed our relationship with the world.

Risberg's works in this project are etchings where old methods are combined with digital painting. The motifs consist of various older cars of different brands, and Saab is represented among the works. Not least in the book connected to the project, of which Terje generously donated to the museum.

– I have driven Saab myself, bought a 99 around 1980, and I really liked it. I think Saab cars are sculptural in some way. There is a lot of heart behind them, and they don't feel trend-driven, said Terje Risberg before it was time to take the long-awaited tour through the museum.