Seated beneath a clear glass dome refracting beams of blue light, there’s no telling where you might be travelling to. The Cosmonova theatre of the Swedish Museum of Natural History is a massive 760 square meter construction that seeks to immerse its audience completely as it transports them back in time and to the unknown horizons of outer space within the comfort of an armchair. This film feature is just one of many interactive exhibits (9 in total if we’re being precise) set up within the elongated brick building of old. Pieces of vertebrae the length of your body and a beaked mouth the length of a bus define the blue whale specimen suspended mid-flight in air, its tail fluke still in the midst of a flick. Three other species of whales and plenty of other species surviving the harshest cold in the Arctic and Antarctic are waiting to greet you at the Polar Regions Exhibit.

Walk into a bear cove or crouch low to crawl into a wolves’ den at the Swedish Nature gallery, which curates the countless species at the brink of extinction and desperately seeking cover on Swedish soil. Tap away at games and short activities on a table as you explore the illicit animal trade through simulated situations and role play. Through the study of nature’s development and decline, you will be able to glean insight into the portrait of the human timeline thus far so that we can ink in the details that have yet to be created.