The New York State Museum’s Mineralogy Collection constitutes the world’s largest and most complete array of New York State minerals. Species from most classic, depleted, and new collection sites are represented. The mineral collection contains specimens used for public display, education, and research.

Gemstone & crystal exhibit in the New York State Museum in Albany, NY. Bright positive imagery for the mind. Natural art. Colorful. Rare shapes. This sparks up good memories of searching for crystals & unique minerals on hikes with friends.

The gems and minerals on view in Adirondack Hall represent only a small fraction of the exceptional and sometimes extraordinary specimens that make up the State Museum’s vast mineral collection. On display are unique and alluring minerals collected from mines, quarries, road cuts, and outcrops located throughout New York State.

The New York State Museum houses specimens from several notable sites throughout the state, including 93 mineral species from the Balmat-Edwards mining district in St. Lawrence, super garnets from the Barton Mine in the Adirondack Mountains, and Herkimer diamonds from Herkimer County, New York.

View select specimens from the Oren Root Collection, one of the earliest mineral collections assembled in the United States. The complete collection, containing over 10,000 specimens, was started in 1834 by Oren Root of Vernon, New York.

In 1836, Governor William Marcy appointed Lewis Caleb Beck as Mineralogist of the Geological Survey of the State. His collection lead to the publication of the Report on the Mineralogy of New York in 1842, and formed the nucleus of our current mineral collection.

New York is the only state in the US to continuously produce wollastonite, a key ingredient in the production of ceramics and other industrial products.

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