Janet Annenberg Hooker Hall of Geology, Gems, and Minerals
See the National Gem Collection, including the Hope Diamond, the Carmen Lucia ruby, the Mackay emerald and diamond necklace and the Whitney Flame Topaz, alongside a walk-through mine section and meteorites visitors can touch.
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Hvorfor det er turen værd
It is the reference collection most gemmological writing measures famous stones against, and the mine section sets those stones in the geology that produced them.
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The hall is on the second floor of the National Museum of Natural History and is a permanent exhibit. A virtual tour of the same hall is published on the museum's site.
Samlet fra naturalhistory.si.edu, læs mere på 16. august 2026.
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