Institutes

The Academy’s research institutes offer excellent facilities for its own research teams and for guest researchers. The institutes were founded to develop subject areas considered important, and were often funded by donations.

Over the years, the Academy has been engaged in numerous research institutions,  and many of them have been transferred to the state. These include the National Museum of Natural History in Stockholm and the Swedish Institute of Space Physics in Kiruna. Abisko Scientific Research Station, managed by the Academy since 1935, is since 2010 operated by the Swedish authority the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat. 

Nowadays the Academy manages the five institutes below.

Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics

The institute started its work at the Academy in 1977. Since 1991 it has been working in the border area between ecology and economics. Its research programme includes proprietorship and other legal institutions for handling natural resources, the buffer capacity of ecological-economic systems, and the economic value of ecological systems. 

Bergius Foundation

The foundation, founded in 1791, is a botanical research institute located in the Bergius Botanic Garden in Stockholm and employing about 20 people. The Edvard Anderson Conservatory, open since 1985 and specialising in plants from Mediterranean-type climates, is run by the foundation. 

Center for History of Science

The center was established in 1988, and affords researchers possibilities to study the Academy's rich collections. Sited in the Academy building, the center also takes care of the Academy Archives and collection of instruments, and its Nobel Archives.

Institut Mittag-Leffler

Institut Mittag-Leffler in Djursholm near Stockholm is an international institute for mathematics, to which mathematicians are invited from all over the world for research and discussion. 

Institute for Solar Physics of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

The institute´s station was moved in 1978 from Anacapri in Italy to La Palma in the Canary Islands. The station, which conducts frontier solar research, is situated within the Spanish-International Observatory on the Roque de los Muchachos. In Sweden its work is associated to Stockholm University through Stockholm Observatory.