Vänersborgs museum is Sweden’s oldest preserved museum environment with authentic exhibits from the 1880s. The museum houses a world famous bird collection from Namibia and South Africa for example, Swedish birds and mammals, Egyptian antiquities, glass and porcelain from Europe and China, 19th century paintings and a remarkable collection of seed samples from Swedish native flora.

 

You can also see the old museum warder’s residence and an exhibition about Vänersborg’s great poet and scald Birger Sjöberg (1885-1929).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The collection of birds from Namibia and South of Africa is now seekable on the internet. The collection is in Swedish, but it is possible to seek in the Latin word for the bird. If one wants to see all the birds, print the word "fågel" in the first space. The collection contains 1000 birds.

 

Key to translation:

Fritext = any word, in this case fågel or Latin name of bird

Plats = Place

År = Year

 

Alla poster = All items

Enbart poster med bild = only items with pictures