Collections

The Museum of Geosciences holds collections for research, education, and display.  Many Virginia specimens are included in the collections as well as specimens from famous localities worldwide.  The Museum also serves as a point of contact for access to the wider Department of Geosciences repositories and collections.

Preliminary web access is available for some collections. Please call or email with questions, comments, or requests.

Museum Collections
    Minerals
    Rocks
    Fossils
Teaching Collections
    Education Resource Center (ERC)
    Modeling and Educational Demonstrations Lab (MEDL)
    Paleontology Teaching Collection
    Geobiology Extant Vertebrate Collection
Thesis and Research Collections, Repository Collections
   

Other Geoscience and Virginia Collections databases

• James Madison University Mineral Museum
• mindat.org
• paleodb.org 
• Smithsonian Institution
• University of California Museum of Paleontology
• Virginia Division of Geology and Mineral Resources
• Virginia Museum of Natural History