Museum of Evolution of Uppsala University

Museum of Evolution of Uppsala University
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Established1999
LocationNorbyvägen 16, Norbyvägen 22, Villavägen 9, Uppsala, Sweden
Coordinates59°51′00″N 17°37′33″E / 59.85000°N 17.62583°E / 59.85000; 17.62583
TypeNatural history museum
Websitehttp://www.evolutionsmuseet.uu.se

The Museum of Evolution of Uppsala University (Swedish: Evolutionsmuseet) is a natural history museum in Sweden, and holds Scandinavia's largest fossil collection of dinosaurs.[1] The number of items in today's collection, which spans zoological, paleontological and mineralogical specimens, is approximately 5 million unique pieces, of which only a fraction are exhibited.[2] Expeditions to China in the 20th century unearthed numerous unique paleontological treasures. The museum's collection contains three teeth of the Peking Man, found by paleontologist Otto Zdansky during an expedition to Zhoukoudian in 1921.[3] Due to its large collection of type specimens the museum is an important establishment in the field of biological systematics, and it maintains an active exchange with other scientific institutions worldwide.[4]

  1. ^ http://www.evolutionsmuseet.uu.se/index.htm – in Swedish
  2. ^ "Evolutionsmuseet - kunskapsarkiv med anor". Archived from the original on 20 February 2010. Retrieved 13 November 2009. – in Swedish
  3. ^ "Avdelningen för vetenskapshistoria – Institutionen för idé- och lärdomshistoria – Uppsala universitet" (PDF).
  4. ^ http://www.evolutionsmuseet.uu.se/historia.html – in Swedish