The museum’s new exhibition “Cellphones: Unseen Connections” includes a display of minerals from around the world containing all 65 elements found in the average cellphone.

You are invited to combine learning about minerals and current displays (below and on social media) with coming into the Dice Museum to see the displays in person. The Visitor Map (pdf) identifies the ...

New Museum Display Showcases the Mineral Building Blocks of Cellphones How X-Rays Unlocked the Mystery of Crystals The Story Behind the New 8,000-Pound Quartz at the Smithsonian.

The Museum houses around 185,000 mineral specimens, and 125 of them are featured in the newly redeveloped Hintze Hall. Lu Allington-Jones , Senior Conservator at the Museum, had the delicate task of ...

The Mineral Museum re-opened in Spring 2024, after undergoing a remodel to remove asbestos-containing floors. The original maple hardwood floors underneath were refinished and now shine.

Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History has reopened its permanent mineral exhibit and is inviting visitors to check out the sparkling array of rocks and No paywalls. No subscriptions.

Montana Tech's Mineral Museum has been collecting specimens for more than a century and is open to the public Monday through Friday, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

A burglar broke into a natural history museum near Portland, Ore., shattered a display case and made off "numerous" items containing gold on Christmas Eve, local authorities say.

New downtown gem museum nears completion as pandemic clouds its plans to open New space at historic courthouse is three times larger than the University of Arizona's existing mineral display ...