The Rutgers Geology Museum, formerly known as the Geological Hall, is a beautifully preserved building on the historic Queens Campus of Rutgers University. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the building was designed by architect Henry Janeway Hardenbergh and built in 1872 and currently houses the university's geological museum and several administrative offices. The Rutgers Geology Museum was founded by state geologist and Rutgers professor George Hammell Cook and is the oldest collegiate geology museum in the United States. The museum is dedicated to the natural history of New Jersey with a focus on anthropology, paleontology, and geology and features impressive collections of fluorescent zinc minerals, and fossils such as a mastodon, a dinosaur trackway, and an Egyptian mummy from the Ptolemaic era.

85 Somerset St, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, Phone: 848-932-7243

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