The MAX IV Laboratory is a new synchrotron in Lund, Sweden which operates two storage rings and a short-pulse facility. The MAX IV 3 GeV storage ring is the first synchrotron ring with a multi-bend achromat design providing higher photon beam brilliance and coherence.
A number of beamlines interesting for Structural Biologists is in operation or under development at this facility. Amongst these beamlines are the protein crystallography beamline BioMAX and MicroMAX, the small angle scattering beamline CoSAXS and the X-ray absorption spectroscopy beamline Balder. There are also opportunities for using imaging techniques such as m-XRF and soft-Xray STXM. The beamlines will be presented with a slight emphasis on the protein diffraction beamlines.