Carl Linnaeus’s rural summer home was also a working farm, experimental garden and safe store for his scientific collections. The manor, hilltop stone museum and surrounding cultural reserve preserve a rare view of eighteenth-century domestic and scientific life.
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Linnaeus bought Hammarby and nearby Sävja in 1758; the family first stayed in the west wing while the manor house was completed in 1762.
The small stone natural-history museum was built in 1769 to protect Linnaeus’s collections from fire and flood; he also taught students there.
Hammarby became a national building monument in 1935, and the surrounding farmland and woodland became a cultural reserve in 2007.
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At Hammarby, the most revealing building is a small stone museum on a rocky rise, set apart from the red manor house. Carl Linnaeus built it to protect his natural-history collections from fire and flood. The separation tells you what this rural estate was: a family summer home, an experimental farm, and a place where scientific work had to be safeguarded.
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