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Swedish
museum of natural history
– Stockholm
On 5th April, all students and teachers included in this
Erasmus project's meeting , visited the Swedish museum
of natural history in Stockholm. The Swedish museum of
natural history was founded in 1819 by the Royal Swedish
Academy of Sciences and today it is a government agency
that reports to the Ministry of Culture. This museum
promote interest in, and knowledge and research on, the
origins and development of the universe and Earth, on the
plant and animal worlds and on the biology and natural
environment of human beings.
During our visit we had the opportunity to examine closely a
lot of Scientific collections (important biological and
ge-
ological collections) which are classified in the following de-
partments:
•
The department of Botany which is one of the
largest scientific collections in the world, comprising about
4.5 million specimens of flowering plants, ferns, algae,
mosses, fungi, slime molds, lichens and bacteria especially
the herbaria in this department is one of the largest in the
world, with approximately three million specimens of fungi,
lichens, algae and bryophytes. The collections consists of
specimens from all over the world collected from the 1800th
century until now.
•
The department of Geosciences in which have:
mineral collection, well known mineral collectors, meteorite
collection, topographical
collection and so on. The
collections in this department reflect three hundred years
of collecting activities, which culminated during the late
1800s and early 1900s.
•
The department of
Paleobiology which
has
extensive and valuable collections in all areas of
paleontology - more than one million fossil samples from
animals and plant.
•
The department of Zoology contain nearly 4.5 million
objects - skeletal samples starting from skeletons of whales
to microscopic nematodes. The oldest objects in the
collections date from the 18th Century.
•
The department about the inhabitants of the polar
regions
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