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Museums...
directory of mineralogy museums grouped by country in
alphabetical order:
Australia
Australian
Museum (Sydney, New South Wales)
mineralogy, petrology, meteorite and tektite collection
Australian
Prospectors and Miners Hall of Fame (Kalgoorlie)
about Australia's Prospecting and Mining industry
Crystal
Caves Museum (Atherton Tablelands, North Queensland)
Private mineralogical collection with over 600 minerals,
crystals and fossils on display
Museum
of Victoria (Melbourne)
Mineralogy and Petrology Section
Austria
Naturhistorishes
Museum (Vienna)
Department of Mineralogy and Petrography
Belgium
Diamond
Museum (Antwerp)
close to the Antwerp diamond quarter
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (Brussels)
Mineral Gallery
Virtual Museum of the History of Mineralogy
includes antiquarian books, goniometers, crystal models,
antique labels, optical and other instruments once used
in mineralogy or crystallography
Brazil
"Luiz
Englert" Mineralogical and Petrological Museum
(Porto Alegre)
Institute of Geosciences, Federal University of Rio
Grande do Sul - Brazil
Museu
de Geologia (Rio de Janeiro)
Small Brazilian museum, but with minerals, rocks and
fossils from 42 countries. Beautiful collection of rough
and cut gems
Bulgaria
National
Museum of Natural History (Sofia)
Department of Minerals and Rocks
Canada
Canadian
Museum of Nature (Ottawa, Ontario)
Earth Sciences Collection
Czech Republic
Moravian
Museum (Brno, Czech Republic)
Department of mineralogy a petrography
Denmark
Geological
Museum (Copenhagen)
displays a wide range of geological phenomena
Egypt
Egyptian
Geological Museum (Cairo)
geological specimens from Egypt and other parts of the
world
France
Collection
de Minéraux (Paris)
University P. and M. Curie (Sorbonne)
Musée
de la Mine du Cap Garonne (Cap Garonne, Var)
the old copper mine of Cap Garonne is turned into a
museum
Musée
de minéralogie (Paris)
École des Mines de Paris
Musée des Cristaux (Chamonix)
mineralogy of the Alps
Muséum
National d'Histoire Naturelle (Paris)
département Histoire de la Terre
Terrae Genesis (Saint-Amé, Vosges)
rocks of the Vosgian Massif, minerals, fossils
Germany
Clausthal
Mineral Collection (Clausthal-Zellerfeld)
Technische Universität Clausthal
Deutsches
Goldmuseum
gold geology, history, exploration, mining
Mineralienkabinett
(deutsch)
Mineral Gallery (english) (Bremen)
Pictures of common minerals according to the classification
of Strunz. Universität Bremen.
Mineralienmuseum
Oberwolfach
mining and mineralogy museum, including a collection
of minerals from the Black Forrest (Schwarzwald)
Mineralogisch-Petrologisches
Institut und Museum (Bonn)
mineralogical institute and museum at the University
of Bonn
Mineralogisches Museum (Marburg)
der Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany
Mineralogisches
Museum der Universität Hamburg (Hamburg)
approximately 1500 mineralogical objects are exhibited
Mineralogisches
Museum der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität
(Münster)
minerals, including a systematic collection according
to Strunz
Mineralogische Staatssammlung München (München)
Museum Reich der Kristalle. Mineralien, Kristalle, Edelsteine,
Meteoriten, Dauerausstellung und Sonderausstellungen
Staatliches
Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe (Karlsruhe)
department on geosciences
Vulkanhaus
Strohn (Strohn)
volcanism
Hungary
Herman
Otto Museum (Miskolc)
largest collection of Hungarian minerals
Italy
Museo
Mineralogia e Litologia di Firenze (Florence)
Mineralogical Museum of the University of Florence as
part of the Museo di Storia Naturale
Museo Mineralogico Naturalistico di Bormio (Bormio)
minerals from the Alps and from abroad
Naturmuseum Südtirol
- Museo di Scienze Naturali (Bolzano)
includes a mineral collection of about 9000 specimens
Japan
Geological
Museum (Tsukuba Science City)
Geological Survey of Japan
Luxemburg
Musée
National d'Histoire Naturelle (Luxembourg)
Mineralogy department
Netherlands
Gelders
Geologisch Museum (Velp)
showing minerals, fossils, rocks
Geologisch
Museum Hofland
rocks, fossils, minerals, geology
Kristalmuseum
Borculo (Borculo)
minerals, crystals, gems, fossils
Natuurhistorisch
Museum Maastricht (Maastricht)
geology
De Oude Aarde (Giethoorn)
minerals, fossils
Teylers
Museum (Haarlem)
Mineralogical collection from the 18th century in the
oval room
Romania
Mineralogisches
Museum Baia Mare (Baia Mare)
over 1500 mineral specimens
Museum
of Mineralogy (Cluj-Napoca)
Babes-Bolyai University
Russia
Fersman
Mineralogical Museum (Moscow)
world wide collections include more then 135000 items
Spain
Museo
Historico-Minero Don Felipe de Borbón (Madrid)
Museum of the Mining School of Madrid
Sweden
Swedish
Museum of Natural History (Stockholm)
Department of Mineralogy
Switzerland
Musée
Cantonal de Géologie (Lausanne)
Alpine and other minerals
Natural
History Museum (Bern)
minerals, including those from the Swiss Alps
United Kingdom
National
Museums of Scotland (Edinburgh, Scotland)
minerals, gemstones and rocks
National
Museum Wales (Cardiff, Wales)
Department of Geology
Natural History Museum (London)
Mineralogy department
Oxford
University Museum of Natural History (Oxford)
around 30000 specimens from localities worldwide
USA
American
Museum of Natural History (New York City, New York)
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Collections
of minerals, gems, meteorites, ores, rocks, and xenoliths
Arizona
Mining and Mineral Museum (Phoenix, Arizona)
over 3,000 minerals on exhibit. Highlighting the collection
are the colorful minerals from Arizona’s copper mines
California
Academy of Sciences (San Francisco, California)
minerals, meteorites, fossils
California
State Mining and Mineral Museum (Mariposa, California)
on the importance of mining and minerals to the history
of California
Carnegie
Museum of Natural History (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
Hillman Hall of Minerals and Gems
Clement Mineral Museum (Marion, Kentucky)
a collection composed of thousands of fluorite crystal
specimens
Cleveland
Museum of Natural History (Cleveland, Ohio)
Department of Mineralogy. Approximately 35,000 specimens
of minerals, rocks, ores, lapidary arts, gemstones and
meteorites from locations all over the world
Colburn
Earth Science Museum (Asheville, North Carolina)
mineral crystals and gemstones from North Carolina and
around the world
Denver
Museum of Nature & Science (Denver, Colorado)
Department of Earth Sciences
Earth
& Mineral Sciences Museum and Art Gallery (University
Park, Pennsylvania)
collection of rocks, minerals, and fossils totaling
over 22000 specimens
Field Museum (Chicago,
Illinois)
minerals, gems, jade
Franklin
Mineral Museum (Franklin, New Jersey)
over 4000 mineral specimens on systematic display, including
fluorescent minerals
Geology
Museum (Madison, Wisconsin)
University of Wisconsin
Geology
Museum at the Colorado School of Mines (Golden,
Colorado)
approximately 50,000 minerals, fossils, gemstones, and
artifacts
Houston
Museum of Natural Science (Houston, Texas)
more than 750 beautifully crystallized mineral specimens,
including some of the world's rarest and most beautiful
examples
James
Madison University Mineral Museum (Harrisonburg,
Virginia)
over 500 crystals and gemstones from around the world
W.
M. Keck Museum (Reno, Nevada)
Mackay School of Mines Building at the University of
Nevada, Reno houses an outstanding collection of minerals,
ores and photographs, in addition to mining related
relics
Lizzadro
Museum of Lapidary Art (Elmhurst, Illinois)
more than 200 pieces of jade and other hard stone carvings
from around the world
Mineral
and Lapidary Museum of Henderson County (Hendersonville,
North Carolina)
minerals of North Caroline, geodes, fossils
Mineralogical
Museum (Newark, Delaware)
University of Delaware
Mineralogical
Museum (Socorro, New Mexico)
New Mexico Bureau of Geology & Mineral Resources
Natural
History Museum of Los Angeles County (Los Angeles,
California)
Mineral Sciences Exhibits, including a systematic mineral
display
New
York State Museum (Albany, New York)
mineral collection of the New York State Museum contains
approximately 30000 specimens
North
Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences (Raleigh, North
Carolina)
the geology collection numbers approximately 7500 mostly
North Carolina specimens
Peabody
Museum of Natural History (New Haven, Connecticut)
Yale University
Rice
Northwest Museum of Rocks and Minerals (Hillsboro,
Oregon)
rocks and minerals
San
Diego Natural History Museum (San Diego, California)
minerals from southern California, and minerals from
around the world, including about 15000 specimens of
minerals and precious gems
Seaman
Mineral Museum (Houghton, Michigan)
a collection of over 60000 minerals and over 20000 of
these are displayed
The
Smithsonian Institution (Washington, DC)
minerals, gems, rocks, volcanoes, and meteorites
Thomas S. Warren Museum of Fluorescence (Franklin,
New Jersey)
fluorescent minerals
Utah
Museum of Natural History (Salt Lake City, Utah)
3700 mineral and 150 rock specimens from all over the
world, as well as Utah and surrounding regions
Weinman
Mineral Museum (White, Georgia)
Georgia gems, minerals, & fossils
Index to Museums
Natural History Museums
A comprehensive list (University of California in Berkeley)
Virtual Library museums pages
Jonathan Bowen, (Oxford University Computing Laboratory,
Archive Service)
Commission on Museums
of the IMA. Including a list of mineral museum Web sites
and the
Catalogue of Type Mineral Specimens
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