Linnaean Garden

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The Linnaean Garden in Uppsala, Sweden, is the oldest botanical garden of Uppsala University and today one of two university satellite gardens, the other being Linnaeus’s Hammarby. It has been restored to look like an 18th‑century garden based on the ideas of Carl Linnaeus, who studied at Uppsala starting in 1730 and later became a professor of botany.

The garden was first planted by Olaus Rudbeck in 1655 and had about 1,800 species in the late 1600s, but it was damaged by the city fire in 1702. Rudbeck also built the adjacent house in 1693, which is now the Linnaeus Museum. Linnaeus lived there from 1743 until his death in 1778; after that the house housed university staff until 1934, the last occupant being the musician Hugo Alfvén. Since 1937 the house has been a museum showing Linnaeus’s life, with his personal items, cabinet, and herbarium on display.

After the old Linnaean Garden fell into decay, it was bought by the Swedish Linnaean Society in 1917 and restored according to Hortus Upsaliensis. The garden was later taken over by the university, while the Linnaeus Museum continues to be run by the Society.