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 Igneous Rocks Collection determined that 736 items have been fully processed, while 4 items are still under preparation. The collection is fully photo-documented, well […]
The collection was created at the Faculty of Economics within the course “Product Recognition.” Collection manager: Dr. Ivan Razum, museum advisor
The Speleothem Collection comprises a wide variety of cave deposits, including calcite, aragonite, hyalite, gypsum, and other types of speleothems, as well as crystals, concretions, and other cave precipitates from caves, pits, and caverns of the Dinaric Karst and other karst regions around the world. In addition to the characteristic speleothems of the classical Dinaric […]
The Vesuvius lava collection has both historical and scientific significance. It dates back to 1895 and was assembled by Kišpatić himself according to instructions from the observatory staff on Vesuvius. At the time, it was the first collection of its kind in Europe. The collection consists of 273 lava specimens chronologically arranged according to eruption […]
The Meteorite Collection (Extraterrestrial Material) is unique among all collections of the Croatian Natural History Museum, as it is literally extraterrestrial, unlike all other natural history collections, which originate from Earth. The collection comprises stony, iron, and stony-iron meteorites that have fallen or been discovered at various locations around the world. A special place within […]
The Kišpatić collection was created in the early 20th century through the purchase of the finest mineral specimens from the world’s most renowned localities. It is associated with the name of an exceptional Croatian museum curator and naturalist who, through his work at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, left […]
The Mineral Holotype and Cotype Collection comprises holotypes of newly described mineral species, as well as original specimens on which new crystal twinning laws for individual minerals and correctly oriented crystal intergrowths of two mineral species (cotypes) were first identified. Among the holotypes, two phosphate minerals are of particular significance: barićite, named in honour of […]
The systematic mineral collection is the largest collection of the Mineralogical and Petrographic Department of the Croatian Natural History Museum and includes mineral species representing all 13 classification classes distinguished on the basis of chemical and structural affinities of minerals. The modern systematics or classification of minerals is based on Berzelius’s chemical classification of minerals, […]