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Address:
ETH Zurich, Earth Science Collections, Sonneggstrasse 5, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
Opening Hours:
Visits by appointment
Contact:
Peter Brack (Mineralogical-Petrographic Collection), Andreas Dominik Müller (Geological-Paleontological Collection)
collections@erdw.ethz.ch
info_focusterra@erdw.ethz.ch
Phone: +41 44 632 69 98
Links:
Erdwissenschaftliche Sammlungen
ETH Zürich
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Description:
The Earth Science Collections of fossils, rocks, minerals, precious stones and meteorites represent a true archive of the history of the Earth, giving an insight into all kinds of geological processes. The Geological-Paleontological Collection, the Mineralogical-Petrographic Collection and the Relief Collection are available for specialist academics to work with on site.
A small part of the collections can be seen in the permanent public exhibition and in temporary exhibitions at focusTerra.
The original core of the earth science collections of the academic institutions in Zurich are collection assets of the Naturforschenden Gesellschaft of Zurich (est. 1746), which were acquired by the canton of Zurich and soon after integrated in the University of Zurich. After the foundation of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich the collections were administrated jointly by the University and the ETH until they were finally entrusted in the care of the ETH in 1909. From this point on the two main parts of the collections - the Geological-Palaeontological Collection on the one hand and the Mineralogical-Petrographical Collection on the other hand - have been curated by the Geological Institute and the Institute for Mineralogy and Petrology respectively.
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