Links

History of Mineralogy / Crystallography / Earth Science

• The EUROMIN project
  history of mineralogy project by 8 European mineralogy museums
  
  
• History of the Earth Sciences Society
  Membership in the History of the Earth Sciences Society (HESS) offers opportunities to interact and exchange ideas with others interested in the history of the geosciences
  
  

Museums

• Musée de Minéralogie de Strasbourg
  historical reference collection of 30,000 samples of minerals dating mainly from the nineteenth century, 2773 crystallographic models and 150 scientific instruments
  
  
• Teylers Museum (Haarlem)
  The oldest museum in the Netherlands contains fossils, minerals, ancient physical instruments, an extensive library and much more. Collections of late 18th and early 19th century crystal models by Romé de L'Isle and Haüy
  
  
• Krügerhaus (TU Bergakademie Freiberg)
  Apart from a collection of German minerals, there is a complete set of 743 pear wood crystal models designed by Paul Groth and produced by Krantz in Bonn in 1880
  
  
• History of Science Museum
  a department of the University of Oxford, the museum has a collection of scientific inventions, devices, and instruments from different cultures, places, and times in human history
  
  
• GUM (Gents Universiteitsmuseum)
  the science museum of Ghent University (Belgium), with special objects and stories from a range of disciplines
  
  

Collecting & Collectors

• Mineralien - Steindosen - alte Bücher - Bergbaukunst
  from the collection of Simone and Peter Huber, Wiener Neustadt, Austria
  
  
• Antique Optics
  microscopes, thread counters, spectroscopes, collection of Bart Verhaeren (Belgium)
  
  
• MM Instruments
  Mark McElyea's private collection of 18th and 19th century scientific instruments
  
  
• Histoire du Microscope
  from a French collector of antique microscopes
  
  
• The Tricottet Collection
  a collection on the history of collecting, built and curated by Arnaud Mignan
  
  

References

• Annotated Bio-Bibliography of Mineralogy and Crystallography 1469-1919 volume 1 + volume 2
  by the late Curtis Schuh
  
  
• The Mineralogical Record Biographical & Label Archive
  a collection of original printed mineral specimen labels, including biographies of mineral collectors and mineral dealers, and history of institutions.
  
  
• Instruments for Science, 1800 - 1914
  Scientific trade catalogs in Smithsonian collections
  
  
• Museum optischer Instrumente
  about the evolution of the optical industry during the period 1800 - 1920, shows microscopes and spectroscopes
  
  
• Krantz crystallography catalogs archive
  the archive of Dr. F. Krantz, Rheinisches Mineralien-Kontor catalogs related to crystallography and crystal models
  
  
• British & Exotic Mineralogy
  a project around British & Exotic Mineralogy of James Sowerby