Collection de Minéraux de Sorbonne Université

Name: Collection de Minéraux de Sorbonne Université
Address: 4 Pl. Jussieu, 75005 Paris, France
Telephone: +33 1 44 27 52 88
Rating: 4.8

5th Arr.

Tucked inside MINES ParisTech, this 1794 museum holds 100,000 mineral specimens including Crown Jewels gems, meteorites, and an actual moon rock fragment—all displayed in an 18th-century wood-paneled hall that feels like a secret time capsule.

Hidden collection

100,000 specimens

18th-century interiors

Crown Jewels & meteorites

Tips

💎"the best and most beautiful mineral museum I've ever visited"

🌙don't miss the actual moon rock fragment

☢️there's a whole room of radioactive minerals

Collection de Minéraux de Sorbonne Université

4 Pl. Jussieu, 75005 Paris, France

+33 1 44 27 52 88

mineraux.sorbonne-universite.fr

Upcoming at Collection de Minéraux de Sorbonne Université

Sunday, Jun 14

Créer le cristal, voyage entre art et science

June 14

Rare minerals glow like alien worlds under dramatic lighting in this Sorbonne gem. The new exhibition weaves crystalline art with cutting-edge science, where three artists turn molecular structures into visual poetry.

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