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The University of New Mexico Geology Museum is a geology museum in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It is a small portion of the collections of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences of the university.

Established in the 1930s by Stuart Northrop, the University of New Mexico Geology Museum features over 20,000 specimens of rock, fossils, and mineral items recovered from around the world. There are also special exhibits about the world renowned geologic features found in the state (the Jemez caldera and the Harding pegmatite mine). There?s also a large dinosaur bone and a pair of dinosaur eggs in display.

Visited by thousands of people yearly, the University of New Mexico Geology Museum is open on Mondays through Fridays from 7:30 am to 4:30 pm.
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