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Yearly Memberships Include unlimited museum only admission, 10% discount on most items in the gift shop.
Summer Mineral Sale July 3- Sept. 6
World Wide George Megerle Collection
and Dan McHugh Mineral and Science Books Collection
Our next Night Dig is Saturday, July 18th. Come out and join the fun!
550 pounds of Sterling Hill Mine run material has been added to the barrels outside, come and check it out!
Fluorescent Minerals Room
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Explore one of the finest public displays of fluorescent minerals in the world. Our main display, 32 feet long, features hand-sized to large (up to 2.5 ft) specimens of the local fluorescent minerals, all brightly glowing in rich hues of red, green, orange, yellow, and blue. For brilliance and variety of color, the local minerals remain unsurpassed and have been aptly described by one visitor as “fireworks frozen in the dark.”
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A series of small display cases on the opposite wall houses many of the less-common fluorescent minerals of the area, for the benefit of collectors who wish to know what these minerals look like, and as an aid to identifying specimens in their own collections. More than 90 different fluorescent minerals have been found within the Franklin-Ogdensburg area, and many of them are on display here.