The Coatal Museum of Sæby has a fine collection of topographical art from Sæby and its neighbourhood and in particular from Sæbygård Forest.
In the second half of the 19th century a large number of the greatest painters of the time visited Sæby in order to paint in Denmark’s northernmost beech forest. National Romanticism flourished in the time following the Constitution and the Schleswig War. It also left its mark on landscape painting and there was no other place, Danish and idyllic, better suited for this than Sæbygård Forest.
The artists arrived to Sæby year after year and especially in the 1890s where a number of the most famous writers from the Modern Breakthrough liked to stay in Sæby. Later the artists changed their subjects to the heath land in Vendsyssel, to the beach and the sea around Sæby.
