Germany, GEOLOGICAL MUSEUMS

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Aalen, Old World Museum of Geology & Paleontology (fossils, tectonics, geomorphology, ice age exhibition)
Aalen-Wasseralfingen, Touristic Mine "Tiefer Stollen" ("Deep Adit"; iron ore mine, underground sandstone exploitation)
Aalen-Wasseralfingen, Touristic Mine "Tiefer Stollen" 
Aalen-Wasseralfingen, Touristic Mine "Tiefer Stollen" 
Aichach, Wittelsbachian Museum (geology, mineralogy)
Albstadt-Ebingen, Museum "In Herb Store" (="Im Kräuterkasten"; Jurassic fossils, giant ammonites, reptiles)
Alsenz, Pfalz Stein Exploitation Museum (local quarries of Buntsandstein)
Altenburg, Natural Science Museum "Mauritianum" (minerals, Silurian graptolites, Tertiary fossils)
Aschaffenburg, Natural Science Museum (ores of the Kahlgrund copper mine, geology, mineralogy)
Aschersleben, Municipal Museum (paleontological & mineralogical collections, exhibition "Mining in Lower Harz")
Augsburg, Nature Museum (ecology, fossils, minerals)
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Bad Brückenau, Regional Museum (geology, mineral-water springs)
Bad Dürkheim, Pollichia Museum, Pfalz Museum of Nature Science (minerals & their luminescence, regional geology & mining)
Bad Dürkheim, Pollichia Museum, Pfalz Museum of Nature Science
Bad Dürrheim, Regional House (salt springs exhibition)
Bad Ems, Mining Museum (local geology, lead &silver ores, mine equipment)
Bad Frankenhausen, Regional Museum (local geology, gypsum karst, salt deposits, saline waters, copper mining)
Bad Friedrichshall-Kochendorf, Touristic Mine (salt mine, 1.5 km galleries at the depth of 180 m accessible, local geology)
Bad Kösen, Town Museum (salt work exhibits)
Bad Langensalza, Regional Museum (travertine, sulfur waters)
Bad Rappenau, Regional Museum (salt works & health-resort collections)
Bad Reichenhall, Salt Museum (saline spring exploitation)
Bad Reichenhall, Town Regional Museum (local geology)
Bad Tölz, Regional Museum of the Town (geological collection)
Ballenstedt, Local History Museum (mining exhibits)
Bamberg, Natural Science Museum (geology, mineralogy, paleontology)
Bamberg, Natural Science Museum
Bayreuth, Old World Museum of Oberfranken  
Bayreuth, Upper Frankonian Earth History Museum (fossils, minerals, rocks)
Berchtesgaden, Salt Mine & Salt Museum (underground exhibition, 600 m adit, 3000 sq. m chamber, saline lake)
Berlin, Institute of Mineralogy, Museum für Naturkunde, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
Berlin, Institute of Paleontology, Museum für Naturkunde, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
Bernburg, Palace Museum (lapidary, "Mineral Collection of Anhalt", Harz region mining)
Bitterfeld, District Museum (local geology, brown coal mining, amber specimens)
Blankenburg, Little Palace Museum (iron ore mining)
Bredstedt, North Friesland Nature Centre (amber exhibition)
Bremen, University Mineral Gallery
Buggingen, Potash Museum (objects & pictures of closed potassium salt mine)
Buggingen, Potash Museum  
Bundenbach, Fossil Museum (fossils from Devonian shales of Hunsrück)
Bundenbach, Tourist Mine Herrenberg (shale mine with fossils)
Bundenbach, Tourist Mine Herrenberg  
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Cadolzburg, Regional House (geological collection, quarry exploitation)
Cismar, House of Nature (sea shell collection)
Cismar, House of Nature 
Clausthal, Clausthal Mineralogical Collection
Clausthal, Online Mineral Collection
Coburg, Natural Science Museum (geology, paleontological collection established in the beginning of 18th century)
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Daun, Museum of Eifel Volcano (specimens from Eifel and other volcanoes, volcanic areas geology)
Dessau, Natural History & Prehistory Museum (Earth history, local geology)
Dietfurth a.d. Altmühl, Museum "Im Hollerhaus" (minerals, fossils)
Dörfles-Esbach, Slate & Brick Museum (slate exploitation, slate writing plates)
Dornstetten-Hallwangen, Silver Ore Mine "Himmlisch Heer" (1520-1726 silver ore, 1908-1912 barite mining)
Dotternhausen, Museum of Fossils (collection of Triassic invertebrates & vertebrates)
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Efringen-Kirchen, Museum in "Old School" (geology, jasper mine)
Eichstätt, Jura-Museum (paleontological, geological & mineralogical collections)
Eichstätt, Jura-Museum 
Eichstätt, Museum Bergér (vertebrate & invertebrate fossils, minerals, fossil search by visitors in quarry)
Eisleben, Regional History Museum (Mansfeld copper production)
Elbingerode, Mining Exhibit "Büchenberg" (touristic iron ore mine, local geology)
Eltmann, Regional Museum (sandstone industry collection)
Eppingen-Mühlbach, Quarry Works  Museum (quarry work & fossil exhibitions; sculptures in sandstone)
Erbendorf, Regional Museum in Old Monastery (rock & mineral collections, mining documents)
Erfurt, Natural Science Museum 
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Fell near Trier, Barbara-Hoffnung Mine Museum 
Fell, Touristic Mine (two roof shale pits)
Fichtelberg-Neubau, Silvery Iron Mine Gleißinger Fels (500 years of "silvery-shining" iron ore exploitation)
Fladungen, Museum of Rhön (local geology)
Frankfurt am Main, Senckenberg Nature Museum 
Freiburg, Mine Museum "Schauinsland" (touristic lead, silver & zinc ore mine)
Freiburg, Mine Museum "Schauinsland" 
Freiburg im Breisgau, Adelhauser Museum of Nature & Folk Science (mining in Black Forest, minerals, gems)
Furth i. Wald-Sengenbühl, Forest Museum (local geology)
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Gera, Museum of Natural Science (minerals, speleology, ore mining, geology)
Gerolzhofen, Old Town Hall Museum (geological collection, lapidary)
Goldkronach, Regional Museum (local gold mining 1363-1925)
Göppingen-Jebenhausen, Town Natural Science Museum (fossils; Dr. Theodor Engel collection of >70,000 Jurassic fossils)
Gößweinstein, House of Visitors with regional collections (local gewology & paleontology)
Gotha, Museum of Nature in Castle Park (dinosaurs)
Gotha, Museum of Nature in Castle Park
Greding, Museum "Nature & Man" (paleontology, speleology, karst)
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Hachenburg, Westerwald Landscape Museum (geology, rocks, minerals, fossils, mining)
Halberstadt, Museum Heineanum (paleontological exhibition)
Halle, Technical Saltwork Workers & Saltwork Museum (production of 1,400 t of salt per year in an exhibition process)
Hallstadt, Regional Museum (local geology & paleontology; note: pencil collection)
Harzgerode, Castle Room of Local History (iron ore mining; neighbouring the miners' church)
Hausham, Mine Museum (coal mine, collection of fossils)
Hauzenberg-Kropfmühl, Graphite Mine Museum (minerals, graphite exploitation & processing)
Heilbronn, Natural History Museum (minerals, rocks & fossils; Dr. Otto Linck's fossil collection)
Heidelberg, Museum of Geology & Paleontology of the University (plant and animal fossils, Earth history)
Hettstedt, Mansfeld Museum (copper ore mining, geology & mineralogy of copper-bearing slate)
Höchstadt a.d. Aisch, Town Regional Museum (local geology)
Holzmaden, Bernhard Hauff Old World Museum (Jurassic fossils: ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, crocodiles, flying reptiles etc.)
Holzmaden, Bernhard Hauff Old World Museum 
Holzmaden, Old World Quarry Museum (Jurassic fossils, fossil preparation show, visitors' search for fossils)
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Idar-Oberstein, Museum of Minerals, Gems & Jewelry (world gems, German crystals, giant crystals, gem sculptures etc.)
Idar-Oberstein, Gem Mines at Steinkaulenberg (agate & jasper mines, special adit where visitors may search for gems)
Idar-Oberstein, German Gem Museum (>9,000 gems & gemstones)
Imsbach, Regional Museum of Weisse Grube (=White Mine; minerals, ores)
Ingelfingen, Hans Hagdorn Muschelkalk Museum (echinoid & dinosaur fossils, >50,000 specimens)
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Jena, Phyletic Museum (evolution exhibitions)
Jünkerath, Museum of Iron (iron ores & industry)
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Karlruhe, City Museum of Natural Sciences (extensive collections of fossils, rocks & Schwarzwald minerals)
Kempten, Natural Science Museum (geology, minerals & rocks of Allgäu Alps)
Kiel, Geological & Mineralogical Museum, Christian Albrecht University (minerals, crystals, rocks, fossils, environment)
Kiel, Geological Museum, Albrecht Christian University
Kiel, Mineralogical Museum, Christian Albrecht University
Klingenberg a. Main, Vineyard & Regional Museum (clay raw mine)
Königsbrunn, Dr. Heins Fischer's Natural Science Museum (geology & paleontology of the Lichfelde area)
Konstanz, Bodensee Nature Museum (ice age in the Bodensee area; fossils from Öhningen)
Kulmbach, Upper Main Landscape Museum (geology, paleontology)
Kümmersbruck, Mining & Industrial Museum of Eastern Bavaria (mineral raw materials)
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Laichingen, Speleological Museum (Laichinger Tiefehöhle = Deep Cave, depth 80 m; cave minerals & geology)
Lam, Andreas Gabrys' Museum of Minerals (ore deposit minerals)
Landshut, Collections in Adelmanschloss, City & Regional Museum (minerals)
Langenau, Museum of Prehistory (fossils)
Lauffen am Neckar, Earth History Collection of the ZEAG Cement Plant (Triassic & Tertiary fossils)
Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Geological Collection "Eselmühle" (=Donkey Mill)
Lübeck, Museum of Nature & Environment (minerals, rocks, fossils, amongst them whales)
Ludwigsstadt, Slate Museum - Hermann-Söllner-Stiftung (slate exploitation & processing)
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Manderscheid, Stone Box (exhibition of ca. 500 rocks, minerals & fossils)
Manderscheid, Stone Box 
Mannheim, Reiss Museum (geology & fossils of SW Germany, Homo erectus heidelbergensis)
Mannheim, Reiss Museum, Natural Science Collections  
Mauer, Prehistory Museum (fossils: Tertiary mammals, Triassic animals; minerals, local geology)
Maxberg, Museum of the Solnhofen Aktien-Verein (lithographic technique, invertebrata & vertebrata fossils)
Mayen, Eifel Landscape Museum at Castle Genoveva (local geology, shale, pyroclastics & basalt exploitation)
Mehlmeisel, Forest Museum (mineral collection)
Mühldorf a. Inn, Area Museum in House of Lodron (local geology)
Mühlhäusen, Museum "Am Lindenbühl" (geology of North Thüringen) 
München, Alpine Museum of the German Alps Society (Alpine rocks & minerals)
München, German Museum (mining exhibition)
München, Museum of Geological State Collection
München, Museum of Geological State Collection
München, Museum Reich der Kristalle (mineralogy, ca 25,000 mineral specimens)
München, Museum Reich der Kristalle 
München, Paleontological Museum (paleontology & historical geology, ca 1,000,000 specimens, library)
München-Nymphenburg, Museum of Man and Nature 
Münstertal, Silver Ore Mine "Teufelsgrund" (medieval mine, presently asthma therapy & tourist visits)
Münstertal, Silver Ore Mine "Teufelsgrund" 
Münstertal, Silver Ore Mine "Teufelsgrund" 
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Naila, Town Museum (mining exhibition)
Neckartenzlingen, Koch's Fossil & Mineral Museum (geology, fossils, minerals from SW Germany)
Neubulach, Black Forest Minerals Museum (local mining, St. Barbara chapel, mineral exhibition)
Neubulach, Historical Silver Mine (touristic silver, copper & bismuth ore mine from 11th century till 1923)
Neubulach, Historical Silver Mine, Hella-Glück Adit (asthma therapy)
Neuenbürg, Northern Black Forest Museum (local ore mining)
Neuenbürg, Touristic Mine "Frischglück" (iron ore mine)
Neuenbürg, Touristic Mine "Frischglück" 
Neu-Ulm, Regional Museum (local geology)
Niedermoschel, Museum of North & West Pfalz Mercury Ore Mining (mercury, silver ore & coal mining)
Niederschach, Touristic Mine "Otto am Kohlerberg" (copper ore mine, underground exhibitions)
Niederstetten, Lapidary 
Nierstein, Paleontological Museum (animal & plant fossils, Rotliegende footprints)
Nittenau, Town Museum (mineral collections from local barite, fluorite & brown coal mines)
Nördlingen, Ries Crater Museum (impact crater)
Nördlingen, Ries Crater Museum 
Nürnberg, Natural History Museum (geology, fossils, minerals, rocks, volcanic & plutonic phenomena, meteorite)
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Oberaudorf, Audorf Museum in the Castle Gate (local geology)
Obernburg-Eisenbach, Regional Museum (iron ore and basalt mine exhibition)
Oberwolfach, Mining & Mineral Museum (ore deposits, mines & minerals from Black Forest; mine Clara mineral collection) 
Ochsenfurt-Kleinochsenfurt, Triassic Museum (fossils from Frankonian Triassic and other parts of the world)
Oldenburg, State Museum of Natural Science and Prehistory (minerals, precious stones)
Oschersleben, District Museum (brown coal mining)
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Partenstein, Folk Art Museum (barite mining & dressing)
Peißenberg, Mining Museum (coal mine & mining, local geology)
Pfaffenweiler, Village Museum (local quarries exhibition)
Pforzheim-Dillweißenstein, Mineral Museum (minerals of Black Forest & Pfalz, local geology & mining)
Pleysteyn, Mineral & Regional Museum (geology, mineral collection with phosphates from the Hagendorf mine)
Pottenstein, Frankonian Switzerland Museum (geology, paleontology)
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Reutlingen, Natural Science Museum (local geology, minerals & rocks)
Regensburg, East Bavaria Natural Science Museum (minerals, rocks, organisms from Jura till Tertiary)
Riedenburg, Museum of Crystals (7.8 tonnes quartz crystals, replicas of 300 best-known diamonds, tourmalines)
Rottweil, Salt Work Museum "Unteres Bohrhaus" (equipment, documents, salt artefacts)
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Saarbrücken, Geological Museum Saarberg (Earth history, geology, mineralogy)
Saarland, Museums (a list of museums; these with geologic collections are given here)
Sangerhausen, Spengler Museum (copper-bearing slate exhibition, fossils)
Schmalkalden-Asbach, Touristic Mine "Finstertal", Museum Castle Wilhelmsburg
Schmalkalden-Weidebrunn, Technical Memorial "New Steel Plant" (iron ore mining)
Schönebeck, District Museum (salt mining)
Schauenstein, Regional & Fire Guard Museum (mineral collection)
Schleusingen, Natural History Museum at Castle Bertholdsburg (minerals, fossils)
Schlüsselfeld, Town Museum (geology & ecology of the Steigerwald area) 
Schriesheim, Touristic Mine Anna-Elisabeth (silver, copper ore & pyrite mine)
Schriesheim, Silver & Vitriol Mine Anna-Elisabeth 
Schwäbisch Gmünd, Museum of Nature & City Culture (Schwäbische Alb geology, rocks, fossils)
Schwarzenfeld, Mineralogical-Geological Museum (local geology & ore mining)
Seebach, Touristic Mine "Silbergründle" (medieval silver ore mine)
Seebach, Touristic Mine "Silbergründle" 
Sexau, Caroline's Mine (touristic silver & lead ore mine)
Siegsdorf, South-East Bavaria Natural Science & Mammoth Museum (cave, geology, coral reef, fossils)
Simmern, Museum of Hunsrück (geology, fossils)
Solnhofen, Lord-Mayor Müller Museum (Solnhofen lithographic limestone, fossils including Archaeopteryx)
Sonthofen, House of the Region (local geology)
Staffelstein, Museum of the Town of Staffelstein (local geology, minerals, fossils from the Frankonian Jura)
Staffelstein, Petrefact Collection & Oriental Museum (Banzer fossil collection)
Steinberg, Regional & Brown Coal Museum (minerals, fossils, mine equipment)
Steinheim am Albuch, Museum of Meteorite Crater (impact collection & fossil exhibition)
Steinheim am Albuch, Museum of Meteorite Crater 
Steinheim an der Murr, Early Man Museum (paleontological exhibition)
Stuttgart, City Lapidary
Stuttgart, Museum am Löwentor (fossils)
Stuttgart, State Museum of Natural Sciences (fossils)
Stuttgart, State Museum of Natural Sciences 
Sulzbach-Rosenberg, Town Museum (local geology, mineral pigments, ores, reconstructed mine)
Sulzburg, State Baden-Württemberg Museum of Mining (jasper, ore, salt mining)
Sulzburg, State Baden-Württemberg Museum of Mining  
Sulzburg, State Baden-Württemberg Museum of Mining  
Sulzdorf a.d. Lederhecke, Albert's Stone & Fossil Collection (minerals, fossils)
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Teisendorf-Achthal, Mining Museum (adit exposition - 400 years of ore mining )
Thallichtenberg, Geoskop Branch Place at Castle Lichtenberg, Pollichia Museum (microfossils, rocks, geology)
Tübingen, Museum of Geology & Paleontology, University (mostly Mesozoic vertebrate & invertebrate fossils)
Tübingen, Mineralogical Exhibit & Teaching Collection, University (minerals, rocks & large meteorite collection) 
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Ulm, Natural Science Education Centre (Jurassic animal & Tertiary plant fossils)
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Viechtach, Museum of Crystals (collection of 600 minerals)
Vohenstrauß, Mineral Show (minerals from NE Bavaria)
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Waldkirch-Suggenthal, Silver Ore Mine "Erich" (touristic mine, exploited from 1284 till 1938)
Waldsassen, Museum of Stiftland (mineralogical collection)
Wernigerode, Harz Museum (local geology, mining, ecology)
Wieden, Touristic Mine "Finstergrund" (silver mine, mineral collection)
Wieden, Touristic Mine "Finstergrund" 
Wiesloch, City Museum (mining, ores, minerals)
Windischeschenbach, Waldnaabtal Museum in the castle Neuhaus (local geology)
Wolfsegg, Castle Museum (cave studies)
Wolmirstedt, Palace Domain Museum (exhibition "Potash mining in Ohre district")
Wunsiedel i. Fichtelgebirge, Fichtelgebirge Museum (sections of geology, mineralogy & mining)
Würzburg, Mineralogical Museum of the University (ores, rocks, minerals, gems, meteorites)
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Zell, Information Centre & Regional Collection (local geology)
Ziegenrück, VEAG Water Power Museum (geology of upper Saale area)
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