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The Earth and Man National Museum (, romanized ''Natsionalen muzey „Zemyata i horata“'') is a
Image:Painting-onLeft-Museum-Earth-Man1.jpg, Large painting on left
Image:Earthandman2.JPG, Main hall inside museum
Image:Painting-onRight-Museum-Earth-Man1.jpg, Large painting on right
Image:Quartz-Tourmaline-Sofia-Museum1.jpg, Quartz, tourmaline
Image:Amethyst-geode-Sofia-Museum1.jpg, Amethyst geode
Image:Petrified-tree-Sofia-Museum1.jpg, Petrified tree
Image:Rose-quartz-Sofia-Museum1.jpg, Rose quartz
Image:Painting-onRight-Museum-Earth-Man2.jpg, Large painting on right
Image:Mineral-art-form-Sofia-Museum1.jpg, „Duckling“
Image:List-of-Benefactors-Sofia-EandM-Museum1.jpg, Benefactors
Image:Fund13CenturiesOfBulgaria-Sofia-EandM-Museum1.jpg, National Fund „13 Centuries of Bulgaria“
Official website
(in Bulgarian and English) {{authority control Buildings and structures completed in 1898 Museums in Sofia National museums of Bulgaria Museums established in 1985 Geology museums Natural history museums in Bulgaria Science museums in Bulgaria 1985 establishments in Bulgaria Mineralogy museums
The Earth and Man National Museum (, romanized ''Natsionalen muzey „Zemyata i horata“'') is a mineralogical
Mineralogy is a subject of geology specializing in the scientific study of the chemistry, crystal structure, and physical (including optical) properties of minerals and mineralized artifacts. Specific studies within mineralogy include the proces ...
museum in the centre of Sofia
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, the capital of Bulgaria
Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern portion of the Balkans directly south of the Danube river and west of the Black Sea. Bulgaria is bordered by Greece and Turkey t ...
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It's one of the biggest mineralogical
Mineralogy is a subject of geology specializing in the scientific study of the chemistry, crystal structure, and physical (including optical) properties of minerals and mineralized artifacts. Specific studies within mineralogy include the proces ...
museums in the world. It was founded on 1 January 1986 and opened for visitors on 19 June 1987. The museum is situated in a reconstructed and adapted historic building with an area of 4,000 square meters (43056 square feet) constructed in the end of the 19th century (1896–1898). It has a number of exhibition halls, stock premises, laboratories, a video room and a conference room. Its collection covers 40% of all known naturally occurring minerals as well as man-made ceramics
A ceramic is any of the various hard, brittle, heat-resistant, and corrosion-resistant materials made by shaping and then firing an inorganic, nonmetallic material, such as clay, at a high temperature. Common examples are earthenware, porce ...
prepared by Bulgarian scientists.
Apart from its permanent expositions related to mineral diversity, the museum also often hosts exhibitions connected with various other topics as well as concerts of chamber music
Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of Musical instrument, instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a Great chamber, palace chamber or a large room. Most broadly, it includes any art music ...
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Official website
(in Bulgarian and English) {{authority control Buildings and structures completed in 1898 Museums in Sofia National museums of Bulgaria Museums established in 1985 Geology museums Natural history museums in Bulgaria Science museums in Bulgaria 1985 establishments in Bulgaria Mineralogy museums