Crystals, precious metals, gemstones, meteorites... Words rarely used, that suddenly carries one away in a mysterious and fascinating world!

Between this imaginary world and reality there is a single, simple link: atoms organized into a mineral - showing shapes, colours and luster. Hundreds, thousands of minerals which yourself may see with your eyes, after millions of years of transformations deep inside the Earth!

If you are visiting Romania and you are a mineral fan you should take the opportunity of visiting the Mineralogical Museum of Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca! Here you can find the most diverse and representative mineral collection in Transylvania!

You may even think about taking a closer look to this part of Romania starting with our academic town. The Mineralogical Museum is very easy to find, being located in the very center of Cluj-Napoca!

Originally the museum was founded as a teaching collection, thus a place for basic and comparative study of minerals mainly addressing students in geology and professional geologists. Recently (2002) it was opened to the public. Since then, school groups (primary, secondary and high school level) represent most of our visitors; for them, some special attractive projects have been specially designed! (Education in the museum).

Some of the collections in the museum are of a remarkable value, as shown below:

• the only real meteorite collection in Romania (The meteorite collection)
• one of the richest and most varied gold collection in Romania (The native gold collection)
• a spectacular and diversified cut gems collection (The gem collection)
• the richest and most complete collection of Romanian gems (The Romanian gems collection)
• the largest number of mineral species in a systematic exhibit in Romanian museums (The systematic exhibit)
• a great variety of classical mineral occurrences from Romania and abroad

And, more than that, they are now accessible for all of you to be admired (Visitor information)...