Göteborgs Naturhistoriska museum

Our work to carefully update our permanent exhibitions with fishes, reptiles, humans and many more species is finally done. Evolution is a main theme. Come meet all your relatives!

Photographer Bertil Pettersson is back at the Gothenburg Natural History Museum for the sixth time in nearly 60 years with the photo exhibition From Southern Roe Deer Meadow to Northern Bear Marsh. Come see his curious brown bear cubs, majestic moose bulls, magnificent bucks, fuzzy bumblebees – and more.

FOR RESEARCHERS. Preparations and objects from our scientific collection are available on loan to scientific institutions to be used for research purposes. Here you will find information for researchers how to proceed.

PARTNERSHIP. The Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre (GGBC) hosted at the Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences at the University of Gothenburg is made up of seventeen partner organisations from around Western Sweden, the museum is one of them.

The annual publication 2021 for the museum activities and actualities during the former year is now available to download and read. It is in Swedish, with an English summary.