The Academy of Sciences is located within the Stockholm region's Royal National City Park.

In parallel, other major series have appeared and gone: The academy started publishing annual reports in physics and chemistry (1826), technology (1827), botany (1831), and zoology (1832).

Starting in 1887, this series was once again split into four sections (afdelning), which in 1903, became independent scientific journals of their own, titled "Arkiv för..." (archive for...).

The academy was intended to be different from the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala, which had been founded in 1719 and published in Latin.

The location close to the commercial activities in Sweden's capital (which unlike Uppsala did not have a university at this time) was also intentional.