Mgr. Tereza Malá
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Mineral collections and geopark
Collections
To schools and entusiasts from the public, we offer guided excursions to our mineral, rock, and fossil collections.
Among other exhibits, our collections feature Europe's most beautiful epidote crystals, a unique sulphur crystal from Sicily or a 20 m tall crystal of antimonite from Japan.
Our mineral collections feature
11 000
minerals
3000
rock samples
5000
fossils
1
dinosaur tooth
Geopark
Our Geopark consists of 24 rock exhibits collected from important Czech localities accompanied by interpretation panels. The exibits are on display on the grounds of the Faculty of Science of the MU. Thus, our geopark is freely accessible to visitors during the regular campus hours. Alternatively, a guided tour can be arranged.
Please do not hesitate to contact us providing the information below:
- WHAT ARE YOU INTERESTED IN? – would you like to visit our collections or the Geopark?
- WHEN? – date (or several alternatives), time and duration of your visit
- WHO? – number of visitors or students and teachers and school year (so that we can adjust to the commentary according to the required level)
- AIM – what subjects or areas of geology should we focus on? Are there any phenomena you would like us to highlight?
We provided guided excursion free of charge!
You can find as on the Masaryk University Faculty of Science campus on Kotlářská 2, building 11.