Lund University Zoological Museum, Zoological museum at Lund University, Sweden
The Zoological Museum of Lund occupies a red-brick building with a steep orange-red tiled roof on Helgonabacken, designed by cathedral architect Theodor Wåhlin and completed in 1917. Its stepped gables, dormer windows and tall stone-framed windows are visible from the street; a blue sign reads "Zoologiska museet" and "Agardh". The exhibition halls closed in 2011 and the building was integrated into the LUX humanities complex, inaugurated on 28 August 2014.
The museum was founded in 1735 as part of Lund University and is now one of Sweden's oldest natural science collections. Over nearly three centuries, animal specimens have been gathered and cataloged, reflecting the university's long tradition of zoological research.
The three floors were named after Kilian Stobaeus, Anders Jahan Retzius and Sven Nilsson, whose statues stand around Lund University's main building. The Stobaeus room held the bird collection, including a red-breasted goose found in Lund in 1793 and given by Retzius, the museum's oldest specimen. The exhibition halls closed on 23 June 2011.
The former museum building on Helgonabacken, designed by cathedral architect Theodor Wåhlin, was completed in 1917 and now forms part of the LUX humanities complex, inaugurated on 28 August 2014. The exhibition rooms closed on 23 June 2011, so there is nothing to visit inside; the collections are stored at Ekologihuset and Arkivcentrum Syd. The brick facade with its stepped gables and the "Zoologiska museet" sign can still be seen from the street.
The museum's collection includes a great auk, extinct since 1844 and kept off display for safety reasons, along with a thylacine, a passenger pigeon, a moa and a Steller's sea cow. It also holds glass models of invertebrates made in Dresden and wax models of amphibians set in natural surroundings.
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