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northern museum and skansen.
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Museum, containing large collections from all divisions of the animal
kingdom. Special attention may be called to the numerous specimens of native
and foreign birds, the whale collection, that of fishes from the province of
Bohuslän, and the great collection of sea invertebrates.
Among the natural history collections at the University of Uppsala, we
may mention the Zoological Museum and the Botanical Museum, whose
herbarium of Scandinavian phanerogams is considered the best known. At
the Lund University there are also considerable natural history collections,
such as the Zoological Museum, etc.
Besides the aforesaid museums, most of the Swedish secondary schools
possess (for facilitating instruction in the natural sciences) herbaria,
collections of stuffed animals, minerals, and other natural objects, some of which
are quite important.
A private natural history museum of rather great interest is the
Biological Museum of Stockholm, founded in 1893. This institution, which in
its special line has, perhaps, no counterpart in Europe or elsewhere,
contains an almost complete collection of the mammals and birds of
Scandinavia, with about 3 000 stuffed specimens, and, by a panoptic combination
of forest, mountain, and sea. it shows each kind of animal in its natural
surroundings. This museum has been arranged by G. Kolthoff, the
taxidermist, assisted by Docent K. Bovallius and B. Liljefors the
animal-painter.
Northern Museum and Skansen.
Self-knowledge presupposes, in nation as well as individuals, a certain
degree of maturity, and the sciences known as ethnology, folklore, history
of civilization, etc, are young in comparison with others, and have in many
places, in certain respects also in Sweden, not yet received the attention
due to them. But thanks to the energetic efforts of a private person,
Artur Hazelius, Sweden has assumed one of the first places among
nations, in preserving objects illustrating the general development of her
own people and in this connection also of neighbouring peoples.
In 1872, Hazelius commenced his work in the direction indicated, and
m the very next year he found himself able to open the first section of his
museum to the public, although at that time he could not even himself
foresee the greatness destined for this museum. The museum was
then called the Scandinavian Ethnographial Collection and was
almost of a purely ethnographical and folkloristic character. Soon
however, the field of work widened, and the name was changed into
Nordiska Museet, the Northern Museum under which title the institution has
since become world-renowned. At the present moment of writing, the
general catalogue of the Museum exhibits 122 000 examples, many of
which embrace several — sometimes as many as a hundred — objects.
Besides these, there is the library and the archives, and large collections
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