
Germany, GEOLOGICAL MUSEUMS
Alphabetical by city
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Z
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)
TOP
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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