In 1775, Sweden’s first veterinary school was founded in Skara. The founder, Peter Hernquist, was a student of Carl Linnaeus and trained as a veterinarian in France. The Veterinary Museum is now housed in the same building where the first Swedish veterinarians were once trained. During a visit here, you can trace the development of the veterinary profession all the way back to its beginnings. Peter Hernquist was a student of Carl von Linné. After studying medicine in Uppsala and veterinary medicine in France, Peter received permission from Gustav III to start the country’s first veterinary training program in Skara. The year was 1775.

Here you’ll experience a presentation of the veterinary profession’s development over the past 250 years and gain insight into its various branches through modern museum educational technology. In the theater, you can enjoy well-produced and beautiful slideshows, and throughout the exhibits there are interesting objects, images, and texts to explore—not least in a large number of photo frames. And if you’re interested in seeing what happens in the operating room—a place the public rarely gets to visit—you can watch several short video clips, collected in a “jukebox,” showing, among other things, how to perform a cesarean section on a sow or repair a broken femur in a dog.