It was atmospheric when the Mental Health Museum arranged a memorial service with candle lighting on All Saints Day, to pay attention to the people who never came home from Säter's hospital.

- I am a curator at the museum and walk around among these people's history all day. You can see some people's struggles and suffering all the way to the graveyard. Then it feels good to light a candle for them, says Lars Andersson Schaar at the Mental Health Museum.

Surrounded by stigma

He describes the cemetery as distressing. Forgotten. Filled with dead people with a history of illness surrounded by stigma.

The cemetery was opened in 1913. The last burial took place in 1951. For almost 40 years, the hospital buried the patients no relatives wanted, or could afford, to go home, there.

"Nobody cares about those who are here"

- There may be hundreds of crosses left, and certainly some occasional candles are lit sometimes, but usually no one cares about the people lying there.

But today a road of marshals and photo projections lit up their memory, and the museum held an open house to show their history.

The event also aimed for the future.

- It's also about paying attention to those who fall outside today. Who visits them? Even in life, says Lars Larsson Schaar, curator.