Mineralogical Museum of the University of Bonn
The Mineralogical Museum of the University of Bonn is a mineral - Museum in Poppelsdorf Palace . It is affiliated with the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn .
The museum shows around 6,000 objects in four exhibition halls. The halls are dedicated to different topics. In room I, the great variety of minerals is shown according to their systematics . Changing special exhibitions are presented in Hall II, and meteorites are also on display here . Room III is dedicated to metallic raw materials . In addition to the ores on display , there are many everyday objects that show what the ore is used for. Hall IV is also known as the gemstone hall, the topic of jewelery and gemstones is dealt with here.
history
After King Friedrich Wilhelm III. re-established today's Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in October 1818, an associated natural history museum was opened in Poppelsdorf Castle, which also included the mineralogy department . Georg August Goldfuß was the founding director .
Johann Jacob Nöggerath took over the management of the mineralogical department . With the handover of the private collection of the founder of the Bonn Rheinisches Mineralienkontor, Adam August Krantz , consisting of 14,000 steps and 184 meteorites, the museum received a particularly valuable addition to its holdings.
The Mineralogical Museum is one of the oldest museums in the Rhineland and its extensive collection of high-quality minerals and crystal specimens is one of the most important in Germany and is internationally known.
Since the beginning of November 2008, the museum with the world's largest tiger's eye has owned a particularly valuable piece. The cut and polished gemstone is around two meters long and weighs around 150 kilograms. It was found in the Hamersley Range in Western Australia.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 43 '30.17 " N , 7 ° 5' 31.54" O