Museum of Natural History

This guide to Stockholm's Museum of Natural History follows architect Axel Anderberg, an opera-house designer with no background in science, as he planned the building in the early 1900s without a single electric lamp, betting on sunlight instead to show off eleven million specimens. It traces the nine years spent building the brick and granite halls and the copper dome meant to funnel daylight through every floor. Look up at the windows around you, sized for a problem electricity was supposed to have solved.