Crowned by a dome and completed in 1916 to designs by Axel Anderberg, the Swedish Museum of Natural History (Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet) occupied the largest museum building in Sweden as of 2014. The Art Nouveau complex at Frescati is a listed government building, with Stockholm University's main campus later built beside it. It is one of Sweden's two major natural history museums, alongside one in Gothenburg, and draws more than 300,000 visitors a year.
A dedicated annex houses Cosmonova. It opened in 1993 as Sweden's first purpose-built IMAX Dome cinema and is also the country's largest planetarium.
The collections predate the building. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences gathered them, mostly through donations, from its founding in 1739, opened them to the public in 1786 and founded the museum in 1819. The museum separated from the Academy in 1965. Early keepers included Anders Sparrman, a student of Carl Linnaeus who sailed on Captain James Cook's voyages, and Sven Nilsson, who reorganised the zoological collections between 1828 and 1831.
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