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Finding your way on Stockholm University campus

Stockholm University has several campuses, and this guide will help you get to know the different areas.

Here you will find descriptions of what’s located in the different areas, lunch places, and how to navigate your way there.

Visiting addresses and contact details

Contact information – departments and centres

 

Albano and AlbaNova campus

At AlbaNova, education and research are carried out in physics, astronomy and biotechnology at both Stockholm University and the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH).

Directions to Albano and AlbaNova (Google Maps)
 

In the area

  • Department of Astronomy
  • Department of Mathematics
  • Department of Media Studies
  • Department of Physics
  • Department of Psychology
  • Department of Public Health Sciences
  • Department of Social Work
  • Department of Solar Physics
  • Department of Special Education
  • Department of Statistics
  • Nordita (Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics)
  • Oskar Klein Centre (OKC)
  • Stockholm Business School
  • Stockholm Resilience Centre
  • Vetenskapens Hus (House of Science)

Contact information – departments and centres

Lunch place/venues

Following places is available in Albano:

Kräftan (website in Swedish) Restaurant, Kräftriket 9C

Proviant Albano (website in Swedish) Restaurant, bar and café. House 2, floor 4

Café (website in Swedish) Albano, house 2, floor 2, below the Albano stairs 

Pressbyrån, Albano Albano, house 4. Albanovägen 12

Restaurant Entré AlbaNova, floor 3 of the main building

The Coffice Albano Albano, house 3. Hannes Alfvéns väg 10

 

 

Frescati campus

The main campus of Stockholm University is Frescati, characterised by beautiful nature, unique architecture and modern art. The area stretches from Frescativägen 54 in the north to Södra huset in the south, and from west to east between the “Universitetet” subway station to Frescatibackehusen.

From Stockholm city centre, walking to Frescati takes about 20 minutes. You can also take the tunnelbana (subway) red line to the Universitetet station, the Roslagsbanan commuter train, and a number of buses.

Directions to Frescati (Google Maps)
 

In the area

Contact information – departments and centres

  • Accelerator exhibition space
  • Astrobiology Centre
  • Baltic Sea Centre
  • Bolin Centre for Climate Research
  • Centre for Medieval Studies
  • Centre for Radiation Protection Research (CRPR)
  • Centre for Research on Bilingualism
  • Chemistry Section
  • CLLAM – Centre for Logic, Language, and Mind
  • Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
  • Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics (DBB)
  • Department of Biology Education (BIG)
  • Department of Child and Youth Studies
  • Department of Criminology
  • Department of Culture and Aesthetics
  • Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences (DEEP)
  • Department of Economic History and International Relations
  • Department of Economics
  • Department of Education
  • Department of English
  • Department of Environmental Science
  • Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies
  • Department of Geological Sciences
  • Department of History
  • Department of Human Geography
  • Department of Law
  • Department of Linguistics
  • Department of Materials and Environmental Chemistry (MMK)
  • Department of Meteorology (MISU)
  • Department of Organic Chemistry
  • Department of Philosophy
  • Department of Physical Geography
  • Department of Political Science
  • Department of Romance Studies and Classics (Romklass)
  • Department of Slavic and Baltic Studies, Finnish, Dutch and German
  • Department of Social Anthropology
  • Department of Sociology
  • Department of Statistics
  • Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism
  • Department of Teaching and Learning
  • Department of Zoology
  • Electron microscopy centre (EMC)
  • Hans Blix centrum för de internationella relationernas historia (IRH)
  • Institute for Interpreting and Translation Studies (TÖl)
  • Institute for Turkish Studies (SUITS)
  • Institute of European Law
  • Institutet för immaterialrätt och marknadsrätt (IFIM)
  • Kemilärarnas resurscentrum (KRC)
  • National Centre for Swedish as a Second Language
  •  Nordic Institute of Latin American Studies
  • Språkstudion
  • Stockholm Centre for Commercial Law – SCCL
  • Stockholm Centre for International Law and Justice (SCILJ)
  • Stockholm Centre for Organizational Research (SCORE)
  • Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace
  • Stockholm Centre for the Rights of the Child
  • Stockholm Environmental Law and Policy Centre
  • Stockholm University Brain Imaging Centre (SUBIC)
  • Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI)
  • The Centre for Maritime Studies (CEMAS)
  • The Centre for Palaeogenetics (CPG)
  • The Centre for the Studies of Children's Culture
  • The Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES)
  • The Institute for Social Private Law
  • The Swedish Law and Informatics Research Institute (IRI) 

Lunch places

For most recent update on opening hours regarding the above mentionen lunch places/venues please visit: hors.se/stockholm (website in Swedish)

Accelerator Café Cafe, take away, Frescativägen 26A

Faculty Club (website in Swedish) Manne Siegbahn (restaurant for staff, members)

Food & Co Lantis (website in Swedish) Closed from 18 December 2024 for relocation and refurbishment. It reopens in autumn 2025.

Frescati Stories (website in Swedish) Fast casual restaurant, café. Södra huset A4

Kafé Kåriander Fast casual restaurant, café, Studenthuset

Matbutiken (website in Swedish) Take away, plant-based food. Södra huset C4 

Prego Arrhenius Cafe, take away, Arrheniusloboratorierna C5

Prego SU (website in Swedish) Café, take away. Södra huset D4

Restaurant PicNic Fast food, on the right-hand path from the subway station

There are also some Foodtrucks in the area (website in Swedish).

 

Kista campus

The Kista campus lies in the heart of a world-leading IT cluster. As the name suggests, this campus is in Kista, several kilometres north of central Stockholm. Its home to the largest department at Stockholm University: Computer and Systems Sciences (DSV).

Directions to Kista campus (Google Maps)
 

In the area

  • Department of Computer and Systems Sciences (DSV)
  • Spider Centre

Contact information – departments and centres

Lunch places

The campus is a short walk from Kista Galleria which hosts a large selection of restaurants and cafes.

 

Lilla Frescati

The area directly west from the Universitetet station on the other side of Roslagsbana is Lilla Frescati. Here you will find the Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies, the Centre for Cultural Evolution, and the Osteological Unit.

Directions to Lilla Frescati (Google Maps)

In the area

  • Department of Botany building
  • Centre for Cultural Evolution (CEK)
  • Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies
  • Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (KVA)
  • Osteological Unit
  • Wallenberg Laboratory

Contact information – departments and centres

Lunch places

Lilla Frescati is only a short walk to the main Frescati campus and its restaurant offerings.

 

The Film House (Filmhuset)

The Sections for Cinema Studies and Fashion Studies are housed in the Film House building in Stockholm. With the proximity to the film archives, cinemas, and research library of the Swedish Film Institute, there are unique opportunities for research and teaching. Both sections belong to the Department of Media Studies.

Directions to the Film House (Google Map)

In the area

  •  The Department of Media Studies

Contact information – departments and centres

Lunch places

 

Other areas

Available research infrastructure resources at Stockholm University

Bergius Botanic Garden

Bergius Botanic Garden lies between Roslagsbanan highway and Brunsviken bay, on the Northern end of Frescati and the National Park.

Directions to Bergius Botanic Garden (Google Maps)

Bergius Botanic Garden is a museum for living plants with the objective of spreading knowledge and information about biological diversity, botany and horticulture as well as managing material for research and education. The garden serves national and international researchers, students, school children and the general public. The garden is owned and managed by Stockholm University and the Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Stockholm University’s collection includes most of the living plants, around 5,500 species, which are cultivated systematically or in plant-geographical order, outdoors, in greenhouses, and in seed storage. A part of the living collection belongs to the Bergianska board at the Swedish Academy of Sciences. Other collections include objects, portraits of botanists, a library and herbaria. These belong to the Bergianska board at the Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Bergius Botanic Garden website

Spökslottet

Scheffler Palace, more commonly known as the “Spökslottet” (Ghost Castle), was built around 1700 and sits on Drottninggatan, just before Observatory Hill. Official receptions are hosted at Spökslottet, which also has a distinguished art collection (1300s-1800s) and a remarkable collection of Swedish art glass. Much of the older art collection was donated in 1884 and belongs to the Adolf Berg collection, for which Stockholm University is a ward.

Directions to Spökslottet (Google Maps)

Collections and art at Stockholm University

Last updated: September 23, 2025

Source: Communications office & Property Management Office

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