Nature without Humans: The Biological Museum of Stockholm

Stockholm’s Biological Museum (Biologiska Museet), inaugurated in 1893, provides an opportunity to consider a vision of nature devoid of humans, even as its exhibits reveal the implicit presence of humans everywhere.  As such the museum is a site that reveals the problematic of the Anthropocene debate before that debate began to take explicit form: how do we envision the human presence in nature, and what form does that presence take?  What was nature/what would nature be without humans, and without humans, how could nature be envisaged at all?