Venue
The department of Education is situated in brand new Campus Blåsenhus, neighbour to Uppsala Botanical Garden and to Uppsala Castle. The shift to new quarters at visiting address:
von Kraemers Allé 1, was realized in December 2009
The University Main Building is situated in the centre of the town, close to the cathedral. It was built in the 1880s. Parliament had allocated funding, and King Oscar II laid the cornerstone in pouring rain on a spring day in 1879. The site was formerly occupied by a large academic riding building, which was torn down for the new edifice. On May 17, 1887 the building was inaugurated at a festive ceremony. The architect was Herman Teodor Holmgren.
What he created was a grand and stately structure in a sort of Romanesque Renaissance style. The strange thing is that, despite much modernizing and functional changes, we still experience largely the same building that visitors encountered in the 1880s. Its magnificent and spacious foyer with its light cupolas and the Grand Auditorium or Ceremonial Hall (generally called the ‘Aula’), which seats about 1800, gives us a good idea of the best of 19th-century Swedish architecture. Above the entrance to the Aula we read the often-quoted words of the 18th-century philosopher Thomas Thorild: “It is a great thing to think freely, but it is greater still to think correctly.”
Museum Gustavianum, the University Museum, is located in Uppsala city centre, next to the Cathedral.
The Gustavianum was erected in the 1620s to be the main building of Scandinavia's oldest university, and served as such through most of the 19th century. The building is now home to the University Museum, containing five permanent exhibitions. The history of the university from 1477 to the present day is highlighted, as is the Anatomical Theater with an exhibit on early anatomical and medical studies.
The famous Augsburg Art Cabinet with its fantastic inventory is on display as are other such unique objects like Celsius' thermometer. The university collections of Nordic, Classical and Egyptian antiquities are also on show, together with local and Egyptian objects from the Scandinavian salvage campaign to Nubia in the 1960s.
The museum also houses modern and comfortable conference facilities and equipment