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9 unusual facts about Swedish Museum of Natural History


Élisabeth Daynès

Her work is present at museums all over the world, like Musée des Merveilles in Tende, Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Transvaal Museum in Pretoria and Naturhistoriska riksmuseet in Stockholm.

Gossypium arboreum

The holotype was also supplied by him, which is now in the Linnean Herbarium in the Swedish Museum of Natural History.

Ifremeria nautilei

Warén's larva (named after Anders Warén of the Swedish Museum of Natural History), is the first new gastropod larval form to have been described in more than 100 years.

Kåre Bremer

In 1980 he became Curator at the Museum of Natural History in Stockholm in the Department of Spermatophyte Botany.

Per Alström

Alström works at the data bank (Artdatabanken) at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, but has previously worked at Uppsala University and the Swedish Museum of Natural History.

Swedish Museum of Natural History

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.

The Dinosaurs!

Some of them have been available to see in public computers at Swedish Museum of Natural History.

Tim Flach

Tim Flach Hon FRPS (born 1958, London, United Kingdom) is a London based photographer, artist and director, with work in several major international public collections, including the National Media Museum, UK and the Swedish Museum of Natural History.


Carl Axel Magnus Lindman

In 1887 Lindman started work as the Regnellian Amanuensis at the Swedish Museum of Natural History, spending some of his time as assistant in Bergius Botanic Garden and the rest as lecturer in Natural History and Physics at Högre Latinläroverket, a secondary school in Stockholm.

Erik Leonard Ekman

While there, he was offered a position as the Regnellian amanuensis at the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm, which he gladly accepted.

Sweden lunar sample displays

The Apollo 11 plaque display given to Sweden by President Nixon in 1970 was reported missing by the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm on September 7, 2002.


see also

Sven Kullander

Sven O. Kullander (born 1952), Swedish biologist specialising in ichthyology, first steward at the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm