Rutgers University Geology Museum

See a mastodon skeleton, fossils and New Jersey minerals in a free museum inside an 1872 stone hall on Rutgers' oldest campus.

Geology Hall, 2nd Floor, 85 Somerset Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901 · New Brunswick, NJ

About Rutgers University Geology Museum

The Rutgers Geology Museum was founded in 1872 and fills the upper floor of Geology Hall, a stone building by Henry Janeway Hardenbergh on the Queens Campus. Its collection grew from specimens gathered in the 1830s and includes a mastodon skeleton and minerals from the zinc mine at Franklin, New Jersey. Admission is free. It is open Tuesday to Friday during the academic year, plus a handful of Saturdays, so check the calendar before a weekend trip.

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