The Linnaeus Museum The Linnaeus Museum The Linnaeus Museum "(Swedish:Linnémuseet)" is a biographical museum in the Linnaean Garden in Uppsala, Sweden, dedicated to the 18th century botanist Carl Linnaeus. It is run by the Swedish Linnaeus Society. The house was built by Olaus Rudbeck in 1693 and served as official residence for employees at Uppsala University from the latter part of the 17th century until 1934. Its last occupant was musician Hugo Alfvén. Between 1743 and 1778, Carl Linnaeus resided in the building, and in 1937 it was re-made into a museum of Linnaeus personal and professional life. Furniture, household items and textiles,
Samuel Linnaeus Samuel Linnaeus Samuel Linnaeus, born in 1718 in , died in 1797, he was Carl Linnaeus' younger brother. Linnaeus became a student at the University of Lund in 1738, but moved in 1742 to Uppsala, where his brother Carl year before had become a professor. Samuel researched in the Palmskiöldska collection. The following year he moved back to Lund, where he was November 30, 1743 and December 10, 1744 PhD at Sven Lagerbring on the topographic dissertation De Wexionia ("If Vaxjo"), which contains a detailed description of Växjö Cathedral before the fire in 1740. He became Master in 1745 and