Exhibitions
The Museum of Evolution has two exhibition buildings where we tell about the history of the earth and life. The Museum of Evolution Paleontology has exhibitions on fossils and rocks, palaeontology and mineralogy. The Museum of Evolution Zoology houses animals of our time from all over the world.
Here you can see maps, accessibility information and floor plans of our two exhibition buildings.
Zoological exhibition
At the Museum of Evolution Zoology, you can explore the animals from all continents of the world, from the polar regions to the tropics.
Among the museum's more than 5000 animals on display, you can meet a proboscis monkey, a giant anteater, penguins, European elks and the Tasmanian devil. It is also home to almost all species of birds and mammals that live in Sweden. Skeletons and anatomical preparations reveal their anatomy.
Most of the animals were collected more than a hundred years ago to be used in teaching and research.
Palaeontological exhibition
Paleontology is the study of ancient life. Animal and plants are preserved as fossils, either petrified or as imprints. They tell about the development of life during the dramatic history of the earth.
At the Museum of Evolution Paleontology, you can see the largest collection of genuine dinosaur skeletons in the Nordic countries, along with skeletons of ancient ichtyosaurs and plesiosaurs. Our largest dinosaur is the world's only specimen of the long-necked dinosaur Euhelopus zdanskyi.
The exhibits also include extensive collections of fossil invertebrates such as trilobites, octopuses, snails and corals.
Origin - an exhibition about human evolution
Our evolutionary background makes us who we are. But who were our predecessors, relatives and ancestors? Who are we?
Meet your oldest ancestors in the Origin exhibition at the Museum of Evolution Paleontology. It takes you to our African ancestral home, where a multitude of pre-humans once lived side by side. You will meet the crafter Homo habilis, the wanderer Homo erectus and the storyteller Homo sapiens. A family tree shows how we are connected to other living primates, and you will also meet some early common ancestors of us and the other apes.
Mineral cabinet
In the mineral cabinet at the Museum of Evoluton Palaeontology we exibit our old and beautiful collections of minerals - the solid building blocks of the earth and the planets. Here you will find crystals in all colours together with our most common rocks.
You can also study meteorites, rocks that have fallen to the surface of Earth from space.
