Teis Mineral Museum
 Agate almond with quartz gland |
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| place | Teiserstraße 12, Villnöß 
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Mineralogical Museum
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| opening | 1999 |
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private law association
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The Mineral Museum Teis in the South Tyrolean municipality of Funes belonging fraction Teis , presents an original private collection of drusen , and more so-called "Teiser balls", and other minerals .
Teiser spheres are found in air bubbles in the andesite . When salty solutions seep in, agates , amethysts and rock crystals have formed during crystallization . The drusen have a diameter of up to 20 centimeters.
The exhibits in the museum, which has been set up according to contemporary museum education principles, are mainly found objects by the local collector Paul Fischnaller (* 1934), which he has dismantled and collected over the past 30 years.
literature
- Georg Gasser : The "Theisserkugel" occurrence in Villnöß near Klausen In: Der Schlern 1922, pp. 197-198. (on-line)