Swedish Museum of Natural History
The Swedish Museum of Natural History (Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet), in Stockholm, is one of two major museums of natural history in Sweden, the other one being located in Gothenburg. The museum was founded in 1819 by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, but goes back to the collections acquired mostly through donations by the academy since its foundation in 1739. These collections had first been made available to the public in 1786.
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- Naturhistoriska riksmuseet
- Founded
- 1916.
- Headquarters
- Stockholm.
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- Ministry of Culture of Sweden.
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The Swedish Museum of Natural History (Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet), in Stockholm, is one of two major museums of natural history in Sweden, the other one being located in Gothenburg. The museum was founded in 1819 by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, but goes back to the collections acquired mostly through donations by the academy since its foundation in 1739. These collections had first been made available to the public in 1786.
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The museum was separated from the Academy in 1965. One of the keepers of the collections of the academy during its earlier history was Anders Sparrman, a student of Carl Linnaeus and participant in the voyages of Captain James Cook. Another important name in the history of the museum is the zoologist, paleontologist and archaeologist Sven Nilsson, who brought the previously disorganised zoological collections of the museum into order during his time as keeper (1828–1831) before returning to Lund as professor. The present buildings for the museum in Frescati, Stockholm, was designed by the architect Axel Anderberg and completed in 1916, topped with a dome. The main campus of Stockholm University was later built next to the museum. • Illustration — The Swedish Museum of Natural History Side Entrance The museum has Sweden's first purpose-built IMAX Dome cinema called Cosmonova, which opened in a dedicated annex of the museum in 1993. The cinema is also the largest planetarium in Sweden. The Index Herbariorum code assigned to this museum is S and it is used when citing housed specimens.
Recorded constituent parts are Cosmonova and Herbarium, Swedish Museum of Natural History. Its recorded use is museum. It is associated with Sweden. The record gives 1916 as its date of establishment or first appearance. It forms part of Ministry of Culture of Sweden. Its recorded seat is Stockholm. It is recorded in the collection of Norra Djurgården.
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• Name — Naturhistoriska riksmuseet • Location Town — Stockholm • Location Country — Sweden • Architect — Axel Anderberg • Completion Date — 1916 • Website — https: www.nrm.se/
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Nature's Palace: Constructing the Swedish Museum of Natural History, History of Science, 2004
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It is classified as natural history museum, national museum and architectural ensemble. It forms part of Ministry of Culture of Sweden. It comprises Cosmonova and Herbarium, Swedish Museum of Natural History.
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