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1539. Compare this 16th-century understanding of the region with your own
travels.
Cost and Hours: 20 kr, free Oct-May; open Mon-Fri 9:00-20:00, Sat
10:00-17:00, closed Sun, tel. [phone], www.ub.uu.se .
More Sights near the University —The Uppland Museum (Upplands-
museet), a regional history museum with prehistoric bits and folk-art scraps,
is on the river by the waterfall, near the TI (free, Tue-Sun 12:00-17:00, closed
Mon, tel. [phone], www.upplandsmuseet.se ) . Uphill from the university
library are the botanical gardens and a museum named after Linnaeus, and
the 16th-century Uppsala Castle, which houses an art museum and runs
slice-of-castle-life tours (required 80-kr tour, offered in English only a few
weeks each summer Tue-Sun at 13:00 and 15:00, tel. [phone]).
▲Gamla Uppsala
This site on the outskirts of town, which gives historians goose bumps even
on a sunny day, includes nine large royal burial mounds circled by a walking
path with English descriptions. Fifteen hundred years ago, when the Baltic
Sea was higher and it was easy to sail all the way to Uppsala, the pagan
Swedish kings had their capital here. You can simply wander the grounds, or
learn more by visiting the attractive Gamla Uppsala Museum, which gives
a good overview of early Swedish history and displays items found in the
mounds.
Cost and Hours: Grounds—free; museum—60 kr; May-Aug daily
10:00-16:00; Sept-Nov and Jan-April Mon, Wed, and Sat-Sun 12:00-15:00,