Geology Collections, University College London

Geology Rock Room
Room 4, First Floor, South Wing
University College London
Gower Street
London
Greater London
WC1E 6BT
England

Website

Website

www.geology.museum.ucl.ac.uk

E-mail

j.dunn@ucl.ac.uk

w.kirk@ucl.ac.uk

Telephone

020 7679 7900

Fax

020 7387 1612

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The Geology Collection contains a wealth of rocks, minerals and fossils collected from all over the world during the last 150 year history of the department.

Venue Type:

Museum, Science centre

 Opening hours

Wednesday lunchtimes or by appointment with the curator.

Closed during public holidays.

Primarily a teaching and research resource, some of the 40,000 specimens are on display to the public. One of the highlights is the Johnston-Lavis volcanological collection of minerals, rocks, photographs and gouaches collected from 1880- 1912.
The collection also contains the NASA archive of thousands of images housed in the new Planetary Science suite, and the internationally important micropalaeontological collections.

Collection details

Archives, Natural Sciences

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