The Linnaean Garden or Linnaeus Garden ( sv, Linnéträdgården) is the oldest of the

botanical garden A botanical garden or botanic gardenThe terms ''botanic'' and ''botanical'' and ''garden'' or ''gardens'' are used more-or-less interchangeably, although the word ''botanic'' is generally reserved for the earlier, more traditional gardens, an ...

s belonging to

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, and nowadays one of two satellite gardens of the larger University of Uppsala Botanic Garden, the other being the Linnaeus family's former summer home Linnaeus's Hammarby. The garden has been restored and is kept as an 18th-century botanical garden, according to the specifications of

Carl Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, ...

, who started studying at Uppsala University in 1730 where he later became professor of botany and principal and is known for formalising the modern system of naming organisms, creating the modern

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, and who owned the garden from 1741 and had it rearranged according to his own ideas, documented in his work ''Hortus Upsaliensis'' (1748). The garden was originally planned and planted by

Olaus Rudbeck Olaus Rudbeck (also known as Olof Rudbeck the Elder, to distinguish him from his son, and occasionally with the surname Latinized as ''Olaus Rudbeckius'') (13 September 1630 – 12 December 1702) was a Swedish scientist and writer, professor o ...

, professor of medicine, in 1655, and had about 1,800 different species in late 17th century, but was damaged in the 1702 Uppsala city fire. In 1693, Rudbeck also built the house adjacent to the garden, nowadays known as the Linnaeus Museum (''Linnémuséet''), which was residence of Linnaeus from 1743, and from his death in 1778 to 1934 residence of employees at Uppsala University, the last of whom was musician Hugo Alfvén. Since 1937, the house has been a museum of Linnaeus personal and professional life, with furniture, household items and textiles belonging to the Linnaeus family exhibited together with Linnaeus personal medicinal cabinet, insect cabinet and herbarium. Swedish Linnaeus Societybr>At home with the Linnaeus family
Retrieved February 21, 2017) After the gardens of

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had been donated to the university by King

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to serve as a new botanical garden, the old one was left to decay. It was bought by the Swedish Linnaean Society in 1917 and restored according to the detailed description in the ''Hortus Upsaliensis''. The garden was later taken over by the university, while the Linnaeus Museum is still run by the Society.

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:''Photos of the Linnean Museum'' CarlvonLinne house.jpg, Residence of Carl Linnaeus 1743–1778 Linnemuseet 08.JPG, Wallpaper of the large room at the bottom floor Linnemuseet Uppsala 02.JPG, Large room at the bottom floor Linnemuseet 03.JPG, Bottom floor Linnemuseet 04.JPG, Hall, upstairs Linnemuseet Uppsala 01.JPG, Entrance from the Linnaean Garden

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* * {{Carl Linnaeus Botanical gardens of Uppsala University Museums in Uppsala Biographical museums in Sweden Science museums in Sweden Commemoration of Carl Linnaeus