Behind the scene
- Date: 16 March 2025
- Location: Botanical Garden, Starts at the Tropical Greenhouse
- Type: Cultural event, Guided tour
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- Organiser: The Linnaean Gardens of Uppsala, the Evolutionary Museum, and Gustavianum
- Contact person: Lotta Saetre
The Museum of Evolution, Gustavianum and the Botanical Garden
invite you to unique tours of rooms you usually never get to
see. Discover storage rooms, greenhouses and treasure vaults! What do the gardeners work with this time of the year?
The Tropical Greenhouse and he Museum of Evolution are open 12:00-4pm. Fri entré till båda museerna hela dagen. 12:00–16:00. Free admission to tboth museums all day.
Tour programme
Join a guided tour in English.
All tours must be booked in advance at info@em.uu.se. Places are limited. Tours are approx 60 minutes long. We meet at the Museum of Evolution Zoology, Villavägen 9, before each tour.
12.30 Gustavianum’s historical collections
Archaeological treasures between swords and mummies. Gustavianum’s collections tell the story of Sweden’s and the world’s cultural history through objects from near and far.
13.00 The Museum of Evolution - Zoology
The museum’s exhibitions feature countless animals, but the storage rooms contain the real treasures: thousands of beetles, unique
Linnaeus animals and more or less well-taxidermied objects.
13.30 The Museum of Evolution - Palaeontology
Ever wondered why the largest collection of dinosaur fossils in the Nordics is in Uppsala? And what other extinct animals do we have in storage? You’ll get the answers during our fossil tour.
14.15 The Botanical Garden’s cultivation greenhouses
During the spring, the gardeners work on raising vegetables, flowers and other plants that are then planted out in the gardens. Come and visit our cultivation greenhouses.
14.30 The Museum of Evolution - Botany
In a building that is usually never open to the public is our herbarium. See our collection rooms, Joachim Burser’s Hortus siccus and Queen Lovisa Ulrika’s botanical volumes.
15.00 Gustavianums historical collections
Tour Gustavianum’s historical and archaeological collections. Gustavianum’s collections tell the story of Sweden’s and the world’s cultural history through objects from near and far.
Family activity - a round-trip to Asine
All day at the Museum of Evolution Zoology
Learn how to interpret history through archaeological finds from the Greek city of Asine. An activity for the whole family.