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Museum in Stockholm, Sweden
"SMNH" redirects here. For the Saskatchewan Museum of Natural History, see
Royal Saskatchewan Museum
Naturhistoriska riksmuseet
The Swedish Museum of Natural History
Interactive map of the Naturhistoriska riksmuseet area
General information
Location
Stockholm
Sweden
Completed
1916
Design and construction
Architect
Axel Anderberg
Website
www
.nrm
.se
The
Swedish Museum of Natural History
Swedish
Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet
lit.
National Museum of Natural History
), 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. 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
. As of 2014
[update]
it is the largest museum building in Sweden.
The main campus of
Stockholm University
was later built next to the museum.
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
and it is used when citing housed specimens.
See also
edit
List of museums in Stockholm
National Museum of Natural History (disambiguation)
References
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"Naturhistoriska riksmuseet"
www.sfv.se
. Statens Fastinghetsverk. Archived from
the original
on 14 October 2014
. Retrieved
17 August
2014
"Naturhistoriska museet"
www.goteborg.com
. go:teborg. Archived from
the original
on 19 August 2014
. Retrieved
17 August
2014
Dahlgren, Erik Wilhelm (1915).
Kungl. Svenska Vetenskapsakademien : Personförteckningar 1739–1915
. Uppsala: Kungl. Svenska Vetenskapsakademien. p. 16.
Nyberg, Kenneth (2007–2011).
"Anders Sparrman"
Svenskt biografiskt lexikon
National Archives of Sweden
(in Swedish). Vol. 33 (2007–2011). Stockholm. p. 3.
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Regnéll, Gerhard (1990–1991).
"Sven Nilsson"
Svenskt biografiskt lexikon
National Archives of Sweden
(in Swedish). Vol. 27 (1990–1991). Stockholm. p. 2.
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"Byggnader inom Frescati"
www.su.se
Stockholm University
. Retrieved
17 August
2014
"Om Cosmonova"
www.nrm.se
. Swedish Museum of Natural History
. Retrieved
17 August
2014
"Index Herbariorum"
. Steere Herbarium, New York Botanical Garden
. Retrieved
29 November
2021
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