Field trips & social events
Page reviewed:
01/07/2026
Field trips are under planning, but here are the list of suggested trips. They will last no longer than 6 hours, including lunch break.
- In the footsteps of Carl von Linné: Linnaeus’s Hammarby (former summer house for the Linné family, now a museum, not only the summer house but also a historically maintained landscape with a horticultural garden, cultivation of heritage cereals etc.), The Linnean garden, the first botanical garden of Sweden, established in 1655. Uppsala Botanical Garden, a grandiose baroque garden and one of Uppsala’s most popular destinations.
- Historic Uppsala: Visiting historic sites in the city, e.g., Uppsala Högar, one of the most important archaeological sites in Sweden, Uppsala Castle, and Uppsala Cathedral.
- The Swedish Forest: Visiting “the Swedish birch alley”, research plots, nature conservation areas and Ekolsund Arboretum.
- Regional natural science in a nutshell: Visiting Biotopia, an interactive museum and science centre, highlighting the nature of the local region, the Erken laboratory, a field station for long-term monitoring of limnology, and Frötuna gård (3rd place in numbers of historical phenology records in Sweden).