The Swedish Museum of Natural History (in Swedish Naturhistoriska riksmuseet), in Stockholm, 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. Stockholm  listen? is the capital and the largest city of Sweden. ... The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences or , founded in 1739 by King Frederick I, is one of the Royal Academies in Sweden. ... 1786 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...

One of the keepers of the collections of the Academy during its earlier history was Anders Sparrman, a student of 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. Anders Sparrman (February 27, 1748 _ August 9, 1820) was a Swedish naturalist. ... A painting of Carolus Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus, also known after his ennoblement as Carl von Linné   listen?, and who wrote under the Latinized name Carolus Linnaeus (May 23, 1707 – January 10, 1778), was a Swedish botanist who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of taxonomy. ... British explorer James Cook, portrait by Nathaniel Dance, c. ... Lund University Lund University (Swedish: Lunds universitet) is a university in Lund in southernmost Sweden. ...

The present buildings for the museum in Frescati, on the outskirts of Stockholm, was designed by the architect Axel Anderberg and completed in 1916; the main campus of Stockholm University was later built next to the museum. Frescati is a parklike area on the northern outskirts of Stockholm. ... Stockholm University The Arrhenius Laboratory at the main campus of Stockholm University at Frescati Stockholm University, or Stockholms universitet, is a state university in Stockholm, Sweden. ...

External links

• Swedish Museum of Natural History, official website