Sweden's most famous fisherman is celebrated on National Day

- Everyone who comes here says, "one of my grandmother's in his summer cottage," says Fredrik Björkman.

He is a cultural editor at Arbetarbladet everyday, but in this role he calls himself the curator.

Alongside the crying child, Harry Haerendal's fisherman is the most common subject in Sweden. In an outhouse in Söderala outside Söderhamn, Fredrik Björkman has over 80 pieces in various interpretations in his outhouse, which he calls the Sweden Fisherman's Museum. On National Day, he unpacks and shows his new works.

- I've been collecting fish cubs for twelve years. In the beginning it was just a thing that I picked them up on flea bars, then it grew. Then they cost twenty kronor, today they can cost five hundred kronor or more at Tradera. But I never pay more than two hundred, says Fredrik Björkman.

Although the house is only a few square meters large, he has managed to build some themes with paintings. A bunch of what you know is the "original" by Harry Haerendel, some locals from Gävle and Sandviken and then the slightly nasty corner with the zombie and some old guys who look really scary.

- June 6 is a red day, nobody knows what to do, so I invented the Fisherman's Day. It came over a hundred people on the first vernissage two years ago, says Fredrik Björkman.

The museum is free of charge and open by arrangement.

- But on June 6, I have varnish for this year's new acquisitions - including a fishing archery cat by the artist Monica Wallman.

Listen to Fredrik Björkman tell about his love for the fisherman in the clip above.