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Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

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Main building of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien), Frescati, Norra Djurgården, Stockholm
Main building of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien), Frescati, Norra Djurgården, Stockholm

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (Swedish: Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien) is one of the royal academies of Sweden. Founded on 2 June 1739, it is an independent, non-governmental scientific organization that takes special responsibility for promoting natural sciences and mathematics and strengthening their influence in society, whilst endeavouring to promote the exchange of ideas between various disciplines. The goals of the academy are: To be a forum where researchers meet across subject boundaries, To offer a unique environment for research, To provide support to younger researchers, To reward outstanding research efforts, To communicate internationally among scientists, To advance the case for science within society and to influence research policy priorities To stimulate interest in mathematics and science in school, and To disseminate and popularize scientific information in various forms. Every year, the academy awards the Nobel Prizes in physics and chemistry, the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, the Crafoord Prize, the Sjöberg Prize and several other awards. The academy maintains close relations with foreign academies, learned societies and international scientific organizations and also promotes international scientific cooperation. The Academy of Sciences is located within the Stockholm region's Royal National City Park.

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Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Lilla Frescativägen, Stockholm Norra Djurgården (Norra innerstadens stadsdelsområde)

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Main building of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien), Frescati, Norra Djurgården, Stockholm
Main building of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien), Frescati, Norra Djurgården, Stockholm
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Swedish Museum of Natural History
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The Swedish Museum of Natural History (Swedish: Naturhistoriska riksmuseet, literally, the National Museum of Natural History), in Stockholm, is one of two major museums of natural history in Sweden, the other one being located in Gothenburg.The museum was founded in 1819 by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, but goes back to the collections acquired mostly through donations by the academy since its foundation in 1739. These collections had first been made available to the public in 1786. The museum was separated from the Academy in 1965.One of the keepers of the collections of the academy during its earlier history was Anders Sparrman, a student of Carl Linnaeus and participant in the voyages of Captain James Cook. Another important name in the history of the museum is the zoologist, paleontologist and archaeologist Sven Nilsson, who brought the previously disorganised zoological collections of the museum into order during his time as keeper (1828–1831) before returning to Lund as professor.The present buildings for the museum in Frescati, Stockholm, was designed by the architect Axel Anderberg and completed in 1916, topped with a dome. As of 2014 it is the largest museum building in Sweden. The main campus of Stockholm University was later built next to the museum. The museum has Sweden's first purpose-built IMAX Dome cinema called Cosmonova, which opened in a dedicated annex of the museum in 1993. The cinema is also the largest planetarium in Sweden.The Index Herbariorum code assigned to this museum is S and it is used when citing housed specimens.