UU : Linnaeus Garden
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Contact:

Address:

The Linnaeus garden
Svartbäcksgatan 27
SE-755 98 Uppsala
Phone/Fax:

Staff in place +46 18-471 25 76
Questions: linnaeus.garden@
linnaeus.uu.se

For guided tours: contact us by email or phone

+46 18 471 28 38
(week days 9.30 am- 11.30 am)


Map


Calendar:

1 May: First day of the season


23 May: Celebration of the birthday of Carl Linnaeus, free entrance


14 August: 18th century market,


10 September: Kulturnatt, conserts in the Orangery, candles in the Garden


25-26 September Last chance to see the garden, this year.


Full program for 2011, in Swedish.

Welcome to

The Linnaeus Garden

The Linnaeus Garden was the first botanical garden in Sweden founded in 1655 by Olof Rudbeck the elder. It is laid out in the French Style and restored following Linnaeus' and Carl Hårleman's design from 1745. Today approximately 1300 species are grown here. All known to have been cultivated by Linnaeus and arranged according to his own system.

Opening hours
May to September Tue-Sun 11am to 5pm. Gates close at 8pm.
The Linnaeus museum (located in the garden and run separately by the Swedish Linnaeus Society) is open Tue-Sun May to September 11am to 5pm.

Common entrance fee (garden and museum): 60 SEK, children under 16 free.
Admission to the Garden free Tue-Sun 5pm to 8 pm.

The Linnaeus museum is situated within the garden. This was Linnaeus home for 35 years.