Geological museum

Geological museum

Geological museum was opened in 1947 and it was the beginning of systematization of stone material, which is stored in it since 1939. The museum is housed in a purpose-built premises with a showroom of 320 square meters and four operating rooms – shlifoteks, photo library, a room of monographic collections in paleontology and paleobotany room and history of the study of geology in Tajikistan. The museum displays 4,540 specimens. The museum has three divisions: Systematic – a collection of the Special Science Geology – Mineralogy, Crystallography, paleontology, paleobotany, a collection of elements in the periodic table, geological map. Department of ” Minerals ” – the main department in which displays all of the genetic types of deposits and occurrences in Tajikistan. Department “Regional Geology ” – reflects the geological structure of Tajikistan’s regions. The museum is housed in the Pamir expedition at Dushanbe, street Bekhzod 13/83.

Geological museum