BRIEF HISTORY:

• 1968, beginings of the minerals collection 1989, November 6, the official opening of the Muzeum Setting up and arranging of the collection: Victor Gorduza, Ecaterina Pop.
• Number of samples in the collection: 16,000. Number of samples exhibited: 1175.
• The design of building: arch. Petre Iulan Stefanescu.
• The design of the endowments and grafic design: Francisc Scheip, Victor Gorduza.

BASIC EXHIBITION GROUND FLOOR

• Geological structure of the North - Western part of Romania, illustrated by the geomorphological model (scale 1: 50,000) and by the magmatic rocks (windows 1 to 7), sedimentary rocks (windows 8 and 9) and metamorphic rocks (window 10 to 12)
• Systematic and main properties of the hydrothermal minerals of the area: galena, sphalerite, calcopyrite, pyrite, stibine, pyrrhotine, marcasite, tetraedrite, semseyite, calcite, rhodochrosite, barytine, gypsum, wolframite, scheelite, vivianite, quartz.
• Classification and presentation of the ore deposits: Borsa, Baiut, Cavnic, Suior, Baia Sprie, Herja, Sasar, Nistru, Ilba, Turt, Razoare.

FIRST FLOOR: Presentation of the aesthetic samples, know in the area as "mine flowers".