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Museum of Mineralogy, Petrology and Mineral Resources
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Phones
+3592 930 83 12
E-mail
Working time
Monday - Friday 09.00 - 17.00 ч
Address
Sofia, 15 Tsar Osvoboditel Boulevard
Location
42.693492,23.334528
Description
The show room of the museum is situated in the South wing of the University on the area of 800m 2. 16200 samples are now stored in the museum stocks, half of which are exposed in 7 expositions: “Taxonomy”, “Petrography”, “Mineral Resources”, “Crystallography”, “Regional Mineralogy”, “Genetic Mineralogy – Individuals and Aggregates” and “Memorial Collections”.
Historical Information
In the 1891-1892 school year in the First Supreme School in Sofia was founded a natural science department, in which Dr. Bone Baev started reading geology lectures. In 1892 the students from the First Secondary School for Boys donated a collection of 450 minerals, rocks and fossils which laid the foundation of the present museums in the geological departments of t he Faculty of Geology and Geography. At 26.06.1894 an inventory was taken of the first bought samples – “A Collection of minerals in the composition of rocks” (the “Krantz” collection).
Sofia, 15 Tsar Osvoboditel Boulevard
+3592 930 83 12
Since the Museum of mineralogy, petrology and minerals is housed inside the main building of Sofia university there’s a ramp as well as an elevator to make the access of disabled people easier.