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The Museum's collections include millions of specimens, and their size and quality place the Museum among the best in the world. The collections provide the basis for the research carried out in the scientific departments, and, through loans and visits by guest researchers, are constantly used by scientists and institutions throughout the world. It is a crucial role of the Museum to keep these collections available for international research, and to preserve them for future generations. Parts of the collections, presented on the Museum's web pages, are also registered in searchable databases.
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Written in English and Swedish, this site provides a detailed description of the many collections housed at the Swedish Museum of Natural History. Collections include a historical collection first catalogued by Carl Linnaeus, collections resulting from Swedish expeditions to the Gambia. Essays describe the history of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences, a history of the Ornithological Collection, and the History of Molluscan research.