Swedish Museum of Natural History

Naturhistoriska riksmuseet (literally Natural History National Museum ) is a museum of Biology and Geology in Stockholm. It is located not far from the University of Stockholm in Frescati district. The construction of the building complex, which was completed in 1916, was led by the architect Axel Anderberg.

The museum has more than 9 million specimens of animals, plants, fungi, fossils and minerals that come from all parts of the world. Completing the collection is environmental samples, DNA data, statistics on bird ringing and other scientific material.

In addition to the exhibition rooms there are in the building a planetarium and an IMAX theater ( Cosmo Nova ).

Scientific Work

The Naturhistoriska riksmuseet is a natural research-based museum. The Swedish Agency for bird ringing is part of the museum. In the museum, ten professors collaborate with other scientific and technical staff. The scientists are not even employed by the museum, but come from nearby universities. The museum is visited annually by about 400 visiting researchers. The research tasks include the determination of the relationship of species, studies on the origin of mountain ground and studies on the impact of man on his environment.

The research department of the museum is connected to various international projects such as GBIF- Sweden and Fishbase.

The following departments there are:

• Monitoring of environmental toxins. " The Environmental Specimen Bank".
• Cryptogamic Botany
• Entimologie
• Invertebrate Zoology
• Laboratory for Isotope Geology
• Laboratory for Molecular Systematic
• Mineralogy
• Paleobotany
• Palaeozoology
• Phanerogamic Botany
• Vertebrate Zoology