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Carolina Rediviva is the main building of Uppsala University Library, built in 1820–1841 to designs by Carl Fredrik Sundvall at the top of Drottninggatan. Its exhibition hall by the entrance shows the Codex Argenteus, a 6th-century Gothic gospel book written in silver ink, the Carta marina map of 1539 and changing displays from the library's collections.

Uppsala Cathedral is the seat of the Archbishop of Uppsala, a Gothic brick church begun in the 1270s and consecrated in 1435; it is 118.7 metres long and as tall. Its chapels hold the tombs of Gustav Vasa and John III, Carl Linnaeus and Emanuel Swedenborg are buried here, and the Skattkammaren treasury shows medieval textiles and royal regalia.

Gustavianum is the oldest surviving building of Uppsala University, built in 1622–1625 with funds from Gustavus Adolphus and used as the university museum since 1997. Olaus Rudbeck added the anatomical theatre under the cupola in the 1660s, and the collections include the Augsburg Art Cabinet, Egyptian antiquities and Viking Age finds.

Upplandsmuseet is the county museum of Uppsala County, housed in Akademikvarnen, a university water mill on the Fyris river completed in 1768 and in use until 1946. Its exhibitions cover the history of Uppland and the city of Uppsala, with a separate exhibition for children, and the mill's exterior appears as the bishop's house in Ingmar Bergman's film Fanny and Alexander.

Gamla Uppsala Museum stands beside the royal mounds in Gamla Uppsala, north of central Uppsala, in a timber-clad building by the architect Carl Nyrén that opened in 2000. The ground floor tells the site's history from the Iron Age with recent excavation results, and the upper floor shows original finds from the mounds and an exhibition on the runestones of Uppland.

Linnaeus's Hammarby is the 18th-century farm that Carl Linnaeus bought in 1758 as a summer home, in the countryside about 10 km south-east of central Uppsala. The red log houses keep the family's rooms, shown on guided tours, the park grows plants Linnaeus himself cultivated, and the surrounding cultural reserve with walking paths is open all year.