The collection of mineral paragenesis of the Trepča/Stari Trg mine (Kosovo) of the Croatian Natural History Museum consists of mineral specimens from one of the most important European lead and zinc mines. It is unique for its beautiful crystal clusters – druses, not only of ore minerals galena and sphalerite, but also numerous others, in […]
The collection consists of minerals and rocks collected from the Donje Orešje quarry on Medvednica. It is a mineralogically significant occurrence containing morphologically very diverse types of calcite crystals and other minerals found in fractures and cavities of mainly Upper Triassic and Upper Cretaceous limestones. Collection manager: M.Sc. Snježana Mikulčić Pavlaković, senior curator
The collection of thin sections consists of rock and mineral thin sections and grain mounts prepared for optical analysis using a polarizing microscope. The collection also contains thin sections from the very beginnings of microscopic research and includes historically valuable thin sections prepared by prominent naturalists, petrographers, and mineralogists Gjuro Pilar, Mijo Kišpatić, Fran Tućan, […]
The opal collection consists of opal specimens from the most renowned localities worldwide and brings together the most important varieties of this well-known and highly valued gemstone. In addition to historically significant specimens from localities that no longer exist due to complete exhaustion, the collection also includes valuable donated and purchased opals from the most […]
The collection of mineral paragenesis of Busovača is unique in the world and consists of mineral specimens from Alpine-type vein paragenesis containing hyalophane, collected at a locality near Busovača in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Hyalophane, a rare silicate mineral, occurs at this locality in the form of pale yellowish single and twinned crystals with remarkable habits. […]
The Lepoglava agate collection consists of mineral and rock specimens collected in the Lepoglava area in Hrvatsko Zagorje, Croatia. At the site of the former Kameni vrh quarry, Miocene andesites and pyroclastites are exposed, within which occurrences of chalcedony, a microcrystalline form of quartz, have been identified, most commonly as agate (a banded variety of […]
Among more than four thousand specimens of ores and minerals collected by the natural history collector Franjo Lanza (from Split), the director of the then National Museum of Natural History in Zagreb, Gjuro Pilar, selected and purchased the most valuable specimens in 1875 for the newly established museum. This marked the creation of the Lanza […]
The collection is modest in size, but it represents a well-selected assemblage of both cut (faceted/polished) and rough mineral specimens classified as gemstones. The gemstone collection brings together the most significant representatives of mineral species and varieties from various localities around the world. Among the most highly valued are diamond, followed by corundum with its […]
Sediments and sedimentary rocks collection, of systematic and variation character. Collection manager: Dr. Ivan Razum, museum advisor
The collection is the result of many years of field research and collecting carried out by all curators of the Mineralogical and Petrographic Department. A revision of the material in the Metamorphic Rocks Collection determined that 480 items have been fully processed, while 14 items are still under preparation. The collection is fully photo-documented, well […]