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Address:
Faculty of Geology, University of Warsaw, Żwirki i Wigury 93 Str., 02-089 Warsaw, Poland
Opening Hours:
Monday – Friday 10:00am – 12:00pm
(up tp 3:00pm by appointment)
Contact:
PhD Marek Stępisiewicz (Senior Curator)
muzeum.geol@uw.edu.pl
Phone: (+48) 0-22 55 40 336, 55 40 025
Fax: (+48) 0-22 55 40 001
Additional information:
Admission free
Links:
Geologiczne im. Stanisława Józefa Thugutta, Wydział Geologii UW
University of Warsaw
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Description:
The history of the Museum reaches back the beginnings of the University of Warsaw and the collection of the Mineralogical cabinet which as early as 1821 contained 8,000 items.
The Museum was officially established as an independent facility in 1961 and became accessible to extradepartamental students and visitors at the beginning of the 1965/66 academic year. Since its inception the Museum functioned as the Museum of the Faculty of Geology but in November of 2008 its name was changed to include the patronage of a famous Polish mineralogist Stanisław Józef Thugutt.
The museum gathers objects connected to geology passed on by scientists of he Faculty but also donated by various benefactors as well as those obtained through purchase. Currently the Museum's collection hold over 27,500 samples of minerals, rocks, fossils aslwell as ores and meteorites.
Reference: Association of University Museums (ed.): University Museums in Poland
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