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In Spain |
Museo
de Ciencias
Naturales de Álava |
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In the Basque Country, a well maintained collection of Spanish
minerals, with some exceptional specimens. |
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Museu
de Geologia
de
Barcelona |
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In Barcelona, a museum with a major collection of documentation
and minerals. The web site is in Spanish, Catalan and English. |
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IGME |
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Museum in a beautiful building which is well worth visiting
for its own sake. |
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Museo
Histórico-Minero
Don Felipe de Borbón |
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The museum of the Madrid school of mines. A classic building
with excellent historic specimens. |
Museu Mollfulleda de
Mineralogia |
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Small local museum, created through the donation of a private collection. |
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In France |
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The largest collection of minerals in France,
so you can spend hours visiting them. |
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French National Natural History Museum. Located in a large park.
Great classic specimens and lots of high quality material. |
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Easy to visit, with an esthetic display of beautiful minerals. |
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In Germany |
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Bergakademie Freiberg |
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It will soon, given the donation of Dr Erica Pohl's collection, be one of the world's best mineralogical museums. |
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Mineral
Gallery |
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Images of common mineral species. University of Bremen. |
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The
Clausthal Mineral Collection |
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University of Clausthal. |
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Mineralogisches
Museum |
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University of Philipps, Marburg. |
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Museum
Reich der Kristalle
Mineralogische
Staatssammlung
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Munich. Museum Reich der Kristalle. |
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The rest of Europe |
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The Natural History
Museum |
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In London, England. For many years the best Natural history
museum in Europe, with vast quantities of minerals. |
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Naturhistorisches
Museum Vienna |
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The reference museum for specimens from eastern Europe, but
it also has exceptional worldwide specimens. In a majestic building. |
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Geological
Museum (Copenhague) |
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While not that well known this is an excellent museum, the best
in northern Europe with a wide ranging collection and lots of Spanish minerals. |
Museo
Civico di Storia
Naturale
di Milano |
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The Natural History Museum of the city of Milan, Italy.
The
mineralogy section has notable Italian and pegmatite specimens, enhanced by excellent
material from Madagascar. |
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Museo
Mineralogia
e Litologia di Firenze |
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Museum of mineralogy of the University of Florence, Italy.
Pleasant,
historic but with recent acquisitions as well. |
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Natural History
Museum,
Bern, Switzerland |
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The Museum of Bern, Switzerland. |
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National Museums
of Scotland |
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Entry point for all the major Scottish museums. |
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Swedish Museum of Natural History |
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Swedish Natural History museum. |
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Teylers
Museum Haarlem
The Netherlands |
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Dutch Natural History museum. |
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The United States |
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The Smithsonian
Institution,
Museum of Natural History |
A really impressive museum with many of the best specimens ever
found. |
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Houston Museum of
Natural Science |
Another excellent north American museum with some superb specimens,
Really esthetic. |
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The
A.E. Seaman Mineral Museum |
Official mineralogical museum of Michigan,
Michigan Technology University, Houghton. |
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Mineral
Sciences |
In the natural history museum in Los Angeles. Very high quality
material. |
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Peabody
Museum of Natural History |
University of Yale. |
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Rice
Northwest Museum
of Rocks and Minerals |
Hillsboro, Oregon. |
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Other museums |
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Museum
of Victoria, Melbourne |
Melbourne, Australia. |