List of mineralogical museums

The list of mineralogical museums contains a list of internationally, regionally or thematically important collections of minerals , precious and semi-precious stones, rocks, meteorites, etc., which can be viewed by the public.

Germany


institution	state	place	Remarks
Mineralogical collection of the museum of the University of Tübingen MUT	Baden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg	Tübingen
Mineralogical Museum Würzburg	Bavaria Bavaria	Wurzburg
Museum Kingdom of Crystals	Bavaria Bavaria	Munich	Part of the Mineralogical State Collection in Munich
Museum of Natural History (HMN)	Berlin Berlin	Berlin
Mineralogical Museum Hamburg	Hamburg Hamburg	Hamburg
Mineralogical Museum of the Philipps University of Marburg	Hesse Hesse	Marburg
Senckenberg Nature Museum	Hesse Hesse	Frankfurt am Main
Zurholt Museum	North Rhine-Westphalia North Rhine-Westphalia	Altenberge
Mineralogical Museum of the University of Bonn	North Rhine-Westphalia North Rhine-Westphalia	Bonn
Mineralogical Museum Münster	North Rhine-Westphalia North Rhine-Westphalia	Muenster
Essen-Kupferdreh Minerals Museum	North Rhine-Westphalia North Rhine-Westphalia	Essen , OT copper turning
GeoMuseum	North Rhine-Westphalia North Rhine-Westphalia	Cologne	Mineralogical collection at the University of Cologne
GeoMuseum Clausthal	Lower Saxony Lower Saxony	Clausthal-Zellerfeld	In the main building of the Clausthal University of Technology
German Gemstone Museum	Rhineland-Palatinate Rhineland-Palatinate	Idar-Oberstein
Mineralogical collection of the TU Bergakademie Freiberg	Saxony Saxony	Freiberg
Mineralogical Collection Germany	Saxony Saxony	Freiberg	in the Kruger House in Freiberg in Saxony
Museum for Mineralogy and Geology Dresden	Saxony Saxony	Dresden
terra mineralia	Saxony Saxony	Freiberg	The collection is housed in Freudenstein Castle. It is on permanent loan from Erika Pohl-Ströher . Around 3500 exhibits are on display. Another 75,000 are in the depot.
Anhalt mineral collection in the Museum Schloss Bernburg	Saxony-Anhalt Saxony-Anhalt	Bernburg
Geological and Mineralogical Museum	Schleswig-Holstein Schleswig-Holstein	Kiel

Austria


institution	state	place	Remarks
Natural History Museum Vienna , Mineralogical-Petrographic Department	Vienna Vienna	Vienna	The collection is one of the most important in the world. Rocks, minerals in a systematic arrangement , precious stones and meteorites are shown in five halls .
Universalmuseum Joanneum	Styria Styria	Graz	The collection comprises 80,000 objects and is based on the donation from Archduke Johann's private collection . Two of the showrooms go back to the late 19th century with the original mineral system according to Tschermak .
Mineral collection Melk Abbey	Niederosterreich Lower Austria	Melk	The old monastery collection dates back to 1767 and was first presented to the public in 2007.

Europe


institution	Country	place	Remarks
Musée de minéralogie in the Mines ParisTech	France France	Paris	The École des mines (since 2008 Mines ParisTech) was founded in 1783. The collection, which was created for teaching purposes, now comprises over 100,000 pieces.
Teis Mineral Museum	Italy Italy	Funes
Mineralogical Museum of the University of Wroclaw	Poland Poland	Wroclaw	The collection was set up for teaching purposes in 1812, one year after the university was founded. Expanded through numerous collections, it now includes around 30,000 copies.
Fersman Museum	Russia Russia	Moscow	The Fersman Museum was founded in St. Petersburg in 1716 and houses one of the largest mineral collections in the world.
Národní muzeum	Czech Republic Czech Republic	Prague
Sedgewick Museum of Earth Sciences	United Kingdom United Kingdom	Cambridge	The foundation was formed by the collection of Edward Daniel Clarke , the first professor of mineralogy at the University of Cambridge , acquired at the beginning of the 19th century . Today it comprises about 50,000 steps.
Natural History Museum Bern	Switzerland Switzerland	Bern	2300 minerals, fossils and rocks.