Mineralogical Museum Würzburg
 The mineral collection is housed on the ground floor of the geography building. |
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| place | Wurzburg |
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Mineral collection u. a.
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Dorothée small grist
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The Mineralogical Museum is part of the Institute for Geography and Geology at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg . It is located on the ground floor of the Geography Building on the Hubland Süd campus.
The holdings were originally exhibited in the Blank'schen Naturalienkabinett, donated by Bonavita Blank (1740–1827) at the end of the 18th century , and expanded through acquisitions and leases from the university, including by curator Ludwig Rumpf . Thanks to the special commitment of the then board of the Mineralogical Institute Jakob Beckenkamp , the collection initially found a new, attractive location in the Mineralogical-Geological Institute on Pleicherwall. In the post-war period, the mineral collection was not open to the public for many years. In the new building Hubland made Siegfried Matthes in 1978 the Mineralogical Museum reopened to the public. After further extensions, it now comprises a total of five rooms with almost 20 topics:
The earth as part of the solar system - meteorite collection - Nördlinger Ries as meteorite impact - structure and dynamics of the earth - plate tectonics of the earth's mantle and oceanic crust - introduction to mineralogy - crystallography - petrology - geochemistry - ore and mineral deposits of current and past global economic importance - Classic ore deposits from Central Europe (Harz, Black Forest, Ore Mountains, Bohemia, Transylvania), regional mineral and rock collection ( Franconia , Spessart , Rhön , precious and gemstone collection, with numerous loans from Idar-Oberstein ).
There are also changing showcases with new acquisitions or special mineral groups .
literature
- Klaus-Peter Kelber , Martin Okrusch : The geological exploration and mapping of the Würzburg city area from the beginning to 1925 . In: Mainfränkische Hefte . No. 105, pp. 71-115, Würzburg 2006.
Coordinates: 49 ° 46 ′ 56.6 " N , 9 ° 58 ′ 12.7" E