Skokloster Castle

Fax.: +46 18 38 64 46

Info Telefon: +46 8 402 30 70+46 8 402 30 60
Besucher-Email: skokloster@lsh.se
http://lsh.it-norr.com/default.asp?id=46...

2008 Skokloster Castle are open from weekends in April and daily until 2 November.

Skokloster - Carl Gustaf Wrangel’s castle on the shores of Lake Mälaren

Here at Skokloster, Carl Gustaf Wrangel – potentate, fashion freak and big spender – created a stately home of European calibre. Just like continental princes, he endeavoured to understand the world by collecting the most remarkable things that Man and nature were capable of creating. The Armoury he stocked with a medley of arms and armour, exotic animals and Indian objets from the New World, America. From Holland he commissioned glittering gilt leather hangings for the state apartments and tools for his lathe workshop. For the Library he purchased maps and travellers’ accounts of faraway countries. He had the Castle’s octagonal towers decorated with models of the universe – armillary spheres.

Margareta Juliana, his eldest daughter, married Nils Brahe, a member of Sweden’s most exalted countly family. On her initiative, in 1701, Skokloster was given a form of ownership which we have to thank for our counting possession of its original furnishings and of the objects added through the centuries by inheritance, purchase and gifts.
Skokloster Castle is a listed building and has been a national museum of cultural history since 1967. Professor Ove Hidemark’s groundbreaking restoration has set the tone of present-day heritage conservation – respect for old building techniques and preservation of the atmospheric patina of age.

Picture: Wikimedia Commons
 

Museum of Medical History

Info Telefon: :+46 18-611 26 10
Besucher-Email: info@mhm.uu.se
http://www.medicinhistoriskamuseet.uu.se...

Thursdays 13-17 am and the first Sunday every month at the same time.

The Museum of Medical History in Uppsala was opened to the public in 1995. The primary aim of the museum is to illustrate medico-technical development from ancient times up to the present, also giving glimpses of medical history in the wider sense.
 

Museum of Evolution

Fax.: 018 471 27 94

Info Telefon: 018-471 27 39
http://www.evolutionsmuseet.uu.se/...

Uppsala University

Zoology & Palaeontology. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 13-16, Sunday 11-15 h.
Bus 6, 7, 21 to 'Villavägen South"

The Evolution museum was founded in 1999 from Uppsala University's former natural history museums, and is today a part of the Evolutionary Biology Center (EBC).

The Museum of Evolution in Uppsala owns a unique collections of animals, plants, fungi, lichens, minerals, dinosaurs and other fossils. There are more than 5 million items of which a small portion is shown in public exhibitions. Most of our collections are, however, research collections and thus available only by appointment.

The museum's roots go back to the 1600s, when modern science began to emerge. From this time onwards several private collections were donated to the University of Uppsala , "naturalia", which came to constitute the basis for current collection. Among the most important contributions are those of Queen Lovisa Ulrika, Jonas Alströmmer, Carl Linnaeus, Carl Peter Thunberg, Leonard Gyllenhal, Carl Wiman, Johachim Burser, Olov Celsius, Goran Wahlenberg, Elias Fries, etc.

Already on Carl Linnaeus time plants, animals, fossils and minerals were collected as an important repository of biodiversity. The Collection was used then as now diligently in teaching.

On the research side the collections will become increasingly important, especially thepatrypes, ie. the specific animal or plant specimens that were the basis for describing and naming species. Access to such specimens are highly desirable for the systematic and zoological nomenclature studies.

The Evolution museum is also an important international source of systematic research and has an active exchange with other research institutions worldwide.

Evolution Museum of Botany (Norbyvägen 16) contains more than three million pressed plants from all corners of the earth.
 

Uppsala Botanical Garden

Fax.: +46 18-471 28 31

Info Telefon: +46 18-471 28 38
Besucher-Email: botanical.garden@botan.uu.se

Guided tour of the Botanical Garden in English every Sunday at 3 pm. The tour starts at the Tropical greenhouse.

The Park (Free entrance): Open daily 07.00-21.00 (May-Sept), 07.00-19.00 (Oct-April).
Tropical greenhouse:
May-Sept: Tue-Fri 09.00-15.00 (Wed until 19.00), Sat-Sun 12.00-15.00
Oct-April: Tue-Fri 09.00-15.00, Sun 12.00-15.00
Orangery (Free entrance):
May-Sept: Monday-Friday 09.00-15.00
Oct-April: Monday-Friday 09.00-14.00 h

Museum of Art

Fax.: +46 (0) 18-727 06 50

Info Telefon: +46 018 727 2482
http://www.uppsala.se/konstmuseum...

Tuesday to Friday - 12:00 to 16:00, Saturday and Sunday - 11:00 to 17:00

Uppsala Art Museum is a municipal museum of art situated in Uppsala Castle. The Museum exhibits works of art from its own collections, arranges temporary exhibitions of Swedish and international contemporary art and also houses a permanent exhibition of the University’s collection of works of art used for Fine Art studies.

The collections of the Uppsala Art Museum are characterised by multiplicity and great variation. The bulk of the collection consists of prints ranging from the 16th century to the printing experiments of the present day. Work by Swedish artists from the 1960’s and 1970’s, regional painting and a large collection of ceramic pieces from the Upsala-Ekeby Factory are also represented in the Museum. In recent years the art collections have been enlarged by purchases of major important and contemporary works of art by now-living active artists. The Museum collections are shown on a regular basis in longer or shorter exhibitions.

On show within the premises of the Art Museum is also the Uppsala University Fine Art Collection, mostly used for university studies. It contains above all older works of art from the Middle Ages and up to the middle of the 19th century. The Collection is divided into portraits, landscape paintings, still life and genre pictures mainly from Holland and France.
 

Bror Hjorths Hus (Artist' s atelier and exhibition space)

Fax.: 018-543350

Info Telefon: 018-567030
Besucher-Email: info@brorhjorthshus.se
http://www.brorhjorthshus.se/index.html...

Museum of Nordic and Egyptian Antiquities (Museum Gustavianium)

Fax.: 018-471 75 72

Info Telefon: +46 018 471 7571
http://www.gustavianum.uu.se/node1...

Tuesday to Sunday - 11:00 to 16:00

Uppland Museum

Info Telefon: +46 018 16 9100
Besucher-Email: info@upplandsmuseet.se
http://www.upplandsmuseet.se/...

Tuesday to Sunday - 12:00 to 17:00

Upplandsmuseet have collected historic objects and pictures since the early 1900s. The collections are currently almost 750 000 objects and around 1.5 million glass negative, negative films and paper copies. To the collections belongs also an extensive archive of topographic data, metering, records and maps.
 

Linnaeus` Hammarby

Tel.: +46 18-32 60 94

Info Telefon: +46 18 471 28 38
Besucher-Email: hammarby@linnaeus.uu.se

May 1st to September 30th.
The park: Tue-Sun 11.00-20.00
Linnaeus’ house (with guide only): 12.00, 12.45, 13.30 (in English), 14.15 & 15.00
Museum shop, exhibition and café 11.00-17.00 h.

The small estate Hammarby, 15 km SE of Uppsala, was bought by Carl Linnaeus in 1758. He wanted a farm on the countryside where he could spend the summers together with his family, away from the unhealthy quarters of Uppsala. Today, few Swedish manor-houses preserve such an authentic milieu. It reflects the private life of Linnaeus as well as his scientific work.

Photo: A.Ahlstedt
 

The Linnaeus Garden

Tel.: +46 18-471 25 76

Info Telefon: +46 18 471 28 38
Besucher-Email: linnaeus.garden@linnaeus.uu.se

Guided tours weekdays 9.30 am- 11.30 am)

Opening hours:
May 1st to September 30th.
The park: Tue-Sun 11.00-20.00

The Linnaeus Garden was the first botanical garden in Sweden founded in 1655 by Olof Rudbeck the elder. It is laid out in the French Style and restored following Linnaeus` and Carl Hårleman`s design from 1745. Today approximately 1300 species are grown here. All known to have been cultivated by Linnaeus and arranged according to his own system.