Museum Gustavianum
Museum Gustavianum
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Christine R
34 contributions
5.0 of 5 bubbles
Nov 2012 • Friends
Thoroughly enjoyed our visit to this museum!! Lots of interesting history of the university, Egypt, Vikings, and a great exhibit for the senses! Worth the price, highly recommend :)
Written December 3, 2012
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Marie G
536 contributions
5.0 of 5 bubbles
Sep 2019 • Family
Make the most of this weekend as it Kulturnatten and free entrance into most of the museums. If you have never been to the Gustavianum then enjoy and go though all the floors it's full of surprises.
Written September 13, 2019
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Gareth W
Lichfield, UK13 contributions
4.0 of 5 bubbles
Sep 2017 • Solo
The museum has a small but diverse collection. For me personally the building itself is an important part of the experience, especially the old medical lecture theatre, designed to maximise the students' view of dissections. Other highlights for me are the archaeological collections on the top floor and the rune stones in the park outside, but there's also a good collection relating to the history of the university. A bit old-fashioned in some ways, but very enjoyable.
Written June 20, 2018
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mram101
Madrid, Spain60 contributions
4.0 of 5 bubbles
Dec 2016 • Friends
It has several floors that house different exhibitions. Surprisingly the anatomical theatre wasn't a big exhibition but mainly comprised the actual theatre. The history of the university is very interesting and so are the several historical trinkets they have. Particularly interesting the section dedicated to the early students and the female students.
Written December 7, 2016
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Linda B
Raleigh, NC2,211 contributions
5.0 of 5 bubbles
Jul 2019
This was the highlight of my visit to the Museum. I'd read about it and was thrilled that our tour group was visiting. Also glad we were able to visit before it closed for three years. The museum contains a bit of everything from Egyptian mummies, scientific instruments (Celsius's thermometer), Viking artifacts, and the curiosity cabinet! It is named the Augsburg Art Cabinet and is covered with little drawers and secret compartments, gemstones, holes filled with thousands of objects. It dates back to 1632. It is amazing!
Written October 21, 2019
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GlobalRambler
United States142 contributions
4.0 of 5 bubbles
May 2019 • Friends
Several of my Gyllenhaal ancestors studied here for at least a while, so I was partly interested for that reason. But I found the displays in the museum interesting in themselves and was glad we had a tour guide.
Written May 15, 2019
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saronic
Zurich, Switzerland26,274 contributions
5.0 of 5 bubbles
Jul 2018 • Solo
Two of the top sights of Uppsala are just next to each other: the gothic Cathedral and the Gustavianum, the oldest building left of the university and a museum for not much more than 20 years. It was by orders of Gustaf II Adolf that this edifice had been erected as a further educational institution of the then already more than 150 years old university.

By visiting the three floors of the Gustavianum one gets the best idea of what this famous university has offered the world. At the ground level are the ticket office, a shop and toilets. Next up one comes to a small auditorium and an interesting hall dedicated to excavations in Greece (Asine), Cyprus (Sinda) and Upper Egypt (Wadi Halfa in todays Sudan) by archaeological teams from Uppsala, the 'Oxford of the North'.

On the whole second floor one can delve into the history of Uppsala university, mostly through the work of some of its most famous exponents with at the forefront Carl Linnaeus, who was followed by a whole school of naturalists and world travellers, like Anders Sparrman, Carl Peter Thurnberg and Daniel Solander. The university has always been especially strong in the fields of chemistry and physics. Various exhibits and good information boards in Swedish and English tell us about the theories and inventions of professors like Anders Celsius, Jacob Berzelius, Anna Sundström, Anders and Knut Angström, Gustav Swanberg, Robert Thalén.

The probably most valuable object of the whole museum is also to be found on the second floor: the incredible 'Augsburg Art Cabinet', a present of that city to king Gustav II Adolf. The other highlight of the Gustavianum is the 'Anatomical Theatre' by universal scholar Olof Rudbeck. It is located on the top floor under the cupola, that prominent feature of the building also from the outside. On the same level are more archaeological finds, especially a Viking ship burial, from a place called Valsgärde in Uppland, excavated by Uppsala archaeologists.
Written December 21, 2018
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Lizette O
Guadalajara, Mexico65 contributions
4.0 of 5 bubbles
Oct 2018
The place is very interesting specially that section related to a viking tomb, burial. There is also a section where you can see learn about science and some scientifics - like some women who were unknown for me, but meant a lot for science.
Written November 14, 2018
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Laragh K
Surrey, UK79 contributions
5.0 of 5 bubbles
Jul 2017 • Family
We visited here on a day trip to Uppsala from Stockholm and really enjoyed it. The museum is small enough that you don't get museum fatigue, and the collections are varied enough that a family of four all found something to catch their interest. There was a good exhibition on scientific instruments, plus the Egyptian section had some great artefacts. The restored anatomical theatre is amazing.
Written August 19, 2017
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TPAnRox
Galloway, NJ213 contributions
5.0 of 5 bubbles
Jul 2017 • Couples
Loved the scientific artifacts and the stories that accompany them. The dissection theater is scary! The Viking exhibit was interesting. All the Egyptian artifacts set you to thinking. They exhibit actual human remains from a few thousand years ago. Respectful, or all is fair in the name of science? Not sure.
Written July 15, 2017
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