Clasonska gården

Boutique hotel with a golden touch

New additional hotel building by Akademihotellet, opened November 24, 2025

Right in the heart of academic Uppsala, a stone’s throw from the cathedral and with Öfre Slott’s historic surroundings around the corner, is Clasonska gården.

Clasonska gården was built in 1698 by the scientist Olof Rudbeck the Elder, one of Uppsala University’s most significant personalities throughout the centuries. Here, during the first half of the 18th century, the county governor had his office for the county council. Later in the 18th century, the building was rebuilt into a post office and in connection with the remodeling, received its current upper floor. The post office used the building until the 1870s, when the person who gave Clasonska gården its name moved in; academic lecturer Edward Clason who later became a professor of anatomy at Uppsala University.

Now the building has once again faced a change in use after undergoing a gentle renovation in 2024 and 2025, to open 13 individually designed rooms to overnight hotel guests in November 2025. All the eras that the building has lived through, from the 18th century onwards, are represented in the house’s interior and as a hotel guest you will be invited to come along on a journey through time inspired by the building’s respective century – here there are Rooms with history.

Property owner and developer: Uppsala Akademiförvaltning