Institutes, Museums, Libraries 279 



— Stockholm — 



1921 : Museet for de exakta vetenskapernas historia ( Museum for the history of exact 



sciences ) : 



Founded in 1921 and owned by the Royal Academy of Sciences. It is not yet 

 open to the pubhc and is temporarily housed in the Riksmuseum, Stockholm 50. 

 Superintendent: Prof. Gustaf Ising. 



Annual reports in the Annual of the Academy (K. Svenska vetenskapsakademiens 

 Arsbok) beginning in 1922. Thanks to the great kindness of Dr. Abne Holmberg 

 I obtained the collection of those reports from 1922 (for 1921) to 1948 (for 1947); 

 each of them is an offprint from tlie Academy's yearbook, varying in length from 

 a few pages to some 60. The longest one, for 1927 (Yearbook 1928, p. 259-316) 

 contains an account of other museums on the history of science such as those of Lon- 

 don, Paris, Prague, Vienna, Munich, Nuremberg, Dresden. 



1897: The Berzelius Museum of the Royal Academy of Sciences: 



Founded in 1897. Located in the Academy's building, Stockholm 50. Superin- 

 tendent: Prof. Arne Westgren, 



Kungl. vetenskapsakademiens Berzelius-Museum (21 p., Uppsala 1928). 



This Museum collects books, MSS and memorials of every kind concerning the 

 chemist Berzelius (1779-1848). The Academy has published an elaborate biog- 

 raphy of Berzelius (3 vols., 1929-31) and his correspondence, and has devoted 

 various other books to his memory (summary in Isis 36, 134-35). 



1924: Tekniska museet (Museum of technology): 



Private institution founded in 1924. The present Museum is estabUshed in a 

 building of very large size and itself of great technical interest, built in 1934-36. 



From the description I gather that the aim is primarily technical ( to illustrate and 

 explain modern technicalities) but there are various exhibits of historical interest, 

 for example, those concerning "the father of Swedish technology," Christopher 

 PoLHEM ( 1661-1751 ) and his disciples. 



Superintendent: Torsten Althin. 



S. Soderberg: Tekniska museet (Industria 1947); Tekniska museet (undated 

 guide, Stockholm). 



Jarnvagsmuseum ( Railway museum ) : 



Opened in 1915. One part of it is at the Central Railway Station in Stockholm 

 (temporarily closed since 1946), another part at Tomteboda Station, 3 km. north. 



Includes remains of the first Swedish-built engine, 1853 (the first Swedish rail- 

 way for steam engine traction was opened in 1856). There are many other engines, 

 passenger cars, the first autobus, signal installations, etc. 



Jarnvagsmuseum (Stockholm 1946). Das Eisenbahnmuseum (Stockholm 1939). 

 The Swedish Railway museum (Stockholm 1939). 



Telegraf museet (Telegraph museum). 

 Open since 1937. No fiterature. 



Open-air Museums. — See the letter of Jean Anker, printed above under "Norway." 



switzerland 



— Basel — 



Historisches Museum ( Steinenberg, 4 ) : 



There is as yet no section of the history of science in this museum, but I under- 

 stand that one may be organized in the near future (Letter from Dr. Wolfgang 

 Schneewind, assistant curator, dated 27 Dec. 1948). The Museum owns two Mer- 

 cator globes, terrestrial and celestial, dated 1541 and 1551, plus other globes, tele- 

 scopes, etc. It also owns three sixteenth century reckoning tables, which are very 

 rare objects (Francis Pierrepont Barnard: The casting-counter and the counting 

 board, p. 231, Oxford 1916; Isis 5, 553). 



