Geological Museum Copenhagen

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Geological Museum Copenhagen: in the courtyard of the Agpalilik meteorite

The Geological Museum Copenhagen or Danish Geologisk Museum , formerly also the Mineralogical Museum Copenhagen , is a state-owned natural history museum for geology with a collection of minerals, rocks, meteorites and fossils in Copenhagen .

Parts of the collections go back to the 16th century. The current building was occupied in 1893. The museum looks after the collections for the University of Copenhagen .

The collections include items from Greenland expeditions and from the Royal Chamber of Art, as well as from Ole Worm's Museum Wormianum collection .

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Coordinates: 55 ° 41 ′ 14.7 "  N , 12 ° 34 ′ 37.1"  E