Geological Museum of Uzbekistan

The Geological Museum of Uzbekistan in Tashkent is the only geological museum in the country, it operates on the basis of the Institute of Geology and the Academy of Sciences of the republic. It was opened in 1937, it is managed today by A.A. Babajanov. The museum funds number more than 6 thousand unique exhibits, there is an extensive collection of minerals and samples of rocks, not only from all over Uzbekistan, but also from other parts of the world, and even from the bottom of the ocean.

Already at the entrance to the Institute you can see the first exhibits - a block of gold mine, petrified trees, in the lobby - a fossilized mollusk, decorative vases found in archaeological excavations. There are samples of minerals: quartz and gold, copper and arsenic, aluminum and antimony, lead and mercury, ingots of precious metals, nuggets of stones - precious and semi-precious, unique ideal rock crystals. The museum is a scientific base for many institutes and schools.