Hungarian Natural History Museum
Department of Mineralogy and Petrology
- Visitors’ address: Budapest VIII., Ludovika tér 2.
- Postal address: 1431 Budapest, Pf.: 137
- Phone: (+36 1) 210 1075/2102 ext.
- Fax: (+36 1) 210 1086
- E-mail address: asviroda_at_min.nhmus.hu
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Brief history
The separate Department of Mineralogy and Petrology was founded in 1939 but the history of its collections goes back to the first years of the 19th century. Minerals and rocks were presented soon after the foundation of the National Széchényi Library (1802) to the new national collection, the first recorded donation (1803) was a collection of minerals and rocks from Countess Julianna Széchényi, née Countess Festetics, wife of the founder of the national collection. |
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