the mineral exhibition of the NHM Vienna / pt. 3
by Robert Kunze
The museum
The basic information about the museum can be found the first article. So I’m not repeating this here.
Click here to vitit the museums’ website.
The mineral collection
The basic information about the mineral collection can be found the first article. So I’m not repeating this here.
My visit of the collection
I visited the mineral collection for about 3 hours. In this time I got a good overview, but I could not look at every piece more closely. You will know this, with time the eye gets tired and it is hard to concentrate.
I tried to find the pieces that were interesting for me and also to take pictures. This is not easy, because of the shape of the showcases many pieces are not well lit. Of course, this also shows in the pictures (I had to use a mobile phone). The quality of the photos is not comparable to pieces in new display cases or even studio photos.
I hope it is still interesting to look at pieces of such an old collection.
In this third part are the pictures of about 38 specimens, more articles with pictures from the collection will follow.
I hope you’ll enjoy! Robert
museum sized specimens (38 photos)
blue aragonite from Styrian Erzberg, Eisenerz, Styria, Austria
Aragonite var. flos ferri from Styrian Erzberg, Eisenerz, Styria, Austria
Ametyhste from Zillertal valley, Tyrol. Austria (about 25 cm high)
Halite (about 1 m wide!) from Wieliczka, Poland
This was the 3rd part of photos from this famous collection. I hope you enjoyed. Thank you very much!
Robert