The most beautiful museums...

[Frank de Wit]

Oldest museums with a geomineralogical collection on display?

1716
Fersman, Sankt-Petersburg ; moved to Moscow in 1934
https://www.strahlen.org/forum/index.php/topic,5934.0.html

1723-1730
Grünes Gewölbe, Dresden, Germany
https://www.strahlen.org/forum/index.php/topic,24498.0.html

1745
MNHN Mineralogie, Paris, France
https://www.strahlen.org/forum/index.php/topic,14420.0.html

“1766”
Bergakademie Sammlungen, Freiberg, Germany
https://www.strahlen.org/forum/index.php/topic,7278.0.html

1784
Teylers, Haarlem, Netherlands
https://www.strahlen.org/forum/index.php/topic,3968.0.html

1818, NM Prague          https://www.strahlen.org/forum/index.php/topic,6465.0.html
1869, AMNH New York https://www.strahlen.org/forum/index.php/topic,5359.0.html
1881, NHM London       https://www.strahlen.org/forum/index.php/topic,1900.0.html
1889, NHM Vienna        https://www.strahlen.org/forum/index.php/topic,5038.0.html
1910, Smithsonian        https://www.strahlen.org/forum/index.php/topic,5749.0.html

[Frank de Wit]

The Most Fantastic Mini Museum !
https://minimuseum.com/
(via http://twistedsifter.com/2014/11/mini-museum-by-hans-fex/)
"Rare" Specimens from Earth and Space, Embedded into an Acrylic Block
(it's so rare, there are 5.500 made of these... ;)

[Armin Sorg]

Hi,

I like to add the "Mineralogische Sammlung" of the TU Freiberg located in the Werner-Bau,
which is separate from the terra mineralia:
http://www.gupf.tu-freiberg.de/freiberg/fg_bilder/min_sammlung.html

and the Prague national history museum:
http://www.nm.cz/Natural-History-Museum/Exhibitions-NHM/

Both exhibitions with really good and much classic material!

[Jos Hens]

I liked the mineral collection in Paris,  l'Université Pierre et Marie Curie

http://www.upmc.fr/fr/culture/patrimoine/patrimoine_scientifique/collection_des_mineraux.html

I saw here the best "Bad Ems" Brown pyromorphite I have ever seen!

[Frank de Wit]

Should we make a list of the most beautiful mineralogical museums / museum mines in the world,
where beauty is of course relative, and personal, and quality has nothing to do with size, etc,

Anyway: what museums should be on the "must visit" list?
(in random order | it's not a contest)


Mineraliensammlung Stift Melk http://www.strahlen.org/forum/index.php/topic,7205.0.html

NHM, Vienna http://www.strahlen.org/forum/index.php/topic,5038.0.html

NHM, London http://www.strahlen.org/forum/index.php/topic,1900.0.html

Smithsonian, Washington http://www.strahlen.org/forum/index.php/topic,5749.0.html

Geominero, Madrid http://www.strahlen.org/forum/index.php/topic,5475.0.html

Terra Mineralia, Freiberg http://www.strahlen.org/forum/index.php/topic,5108.0.html

André Gorsatt museum, Binn http://www.strahlen.org/forum/index.php/topic,4980.0.html

TU Bergakademie, Freiberg http://www.strahlen.org/forum/index.php/topic,7278.0.html

NHM, Prague http://www.strahlen.org/forum/index.php/topic,6465.0.html

UPMC Curie, Paris http://www.strahlen.org/forum/index.php/topic,1770.0.html

And?