The time had finally come, with just two months to go before the inauguration of Uppsala University House. The final year had been waited for until the very last moment to be written on the inscription board on the south-west facade of the building: constructed during the reign of Oscar II in accordance with a royal and parliamentary decision, this building was inaugurated for Uppsala University in 1887. The new University House was to be a palace of education or wisdom, as representative as those of other European universities, and to a large extent it is the same building environment we still encounter today. The building has a special status as one of the few well-preserved and coherent environments in Sweden from the 1880s in terms of architecture, decorative painting, art and furniture, and which is also used for its original purpose, namely academic ceremonies and everyday life. The University House was built during a time when its design and aesthetics have historically been criticized already in the present, but especially with the advent of modernism. This means that it has not been researched to the same extent as other eras. The thesis is thus a contribution to the expansive history of institutional construction in the second half of the 19th century through an in-depth study of a specific building project. In addition, the thesis work has enabled the necessary conservation measures of an unusual drawing material that will be published for the first time.