The best nature museums in Stockholm

At Fjärilshuset Haga Ocean (The Butterfly House) in Haga Park in Solna, you can walk among the free-flying butterflies in large tropical greenhouses. You get to closely experience their mating dance and see the larvae eat – if you’re lucky you even get to watch a butterfly hatch. The Butterfly House is more than 3000 square meters, and has a tropical environment with a minimum of 700 butterflies of many different species. The temperature is never less than 25 degrees during the day and at night it is at least 18 degrees.

In addition, the museum has one of Scandinavia’s largest shark aquariums with a 30 meter aquarium that holds 1.2 million liters of water. Here swims colorful and exotic fish along with large and small reef sharks.

Museum of Natural History (Naturhistoriska riksmuseet), located at Frescati, is a biological and geological museum that opened in 1819. The museum has been in its current building since 1916 and is today Sweden’s largest museum facility where also Cosmonova is included.

In this beautiful building of 20 000 square meters and built in Baroque style, you will certainly have a great time if you are interested in the earth, the universe, plants, animals and human biology. The stunning collections contain over nine million animals, plants, fungi, minerals, and fossils from all over the world.

Skansen on the island of Djurgården is the world’s oldest open-air museum and was founded in 1891 with the purpose to show how people lived and worked in different parts of Sweden during the earlier times. They also wanted animals in the museum since they were a part of life in the farming community.

Over the years about 150 historical buildings have been moved to Skansen from all over Sweden, and these are complemented by an extensive zoo where you can watch both wild Nordic animals, domestic animals, pets, and exotic animals. The museum’s vision is to provide insight and experiences of Sweden’s cultural and natural history, and preserve the collections of buildings, objects, plant and animal species.