Hidden Treasures in the Anniversary Year: The Museum Opens Its Mineral Collection

Paris - 11 July 2026: On the 400th anniversary of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, a rarely seen department is taking center stage: the mineralogy reserve. Usually reserved for specialists, it is now offering selected insights into a collection of hundreds of thousands of minerals and rocks - many with historical inventory numbers, field notes and reference specimens from expeditions, donations and old private collections.The collection is both a laboratory and a repository of memory. Researchers use reference specimens to determine compositions, compare occurrences and reconstruct geological processes. For educational ...