The Rio Grande do Norte Minerals Museum was born from the partnership between IFRN, the State Government and Petrobras. The collection has four distinct collections with pieces from different parts of the world, but with a predominance of those from Rio Grande do Norte. The collection began in the former Federal Technical School of Rio Grande do Norte, today IFRN, with approximately 750 pieces collected and donated over more than 50 years of existence of the Technical Course in Geology and Mining.

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This collection was added to the same number of pieces from the extinct Waldemar Meira Trindade Mining Museum - MMWMT, created in the extinct CDM -RN (Rio Grande do Norte Mineral Development Company). The museum also received the donation of two collections of minerals, rocks, fossils and shells from the donation of the collection of geologists Narla Sathler Musse and Adelbaldo de Oliveira Silva, in addition to the collection of prof. Felippe Fernandes Azevedo from UFPR.

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The permanent exhibition of the Minerals Museum will take the visitor on an extraordinary journey through the mineral assets of Rio Grande do Norte, showing the beauty of the shapes and colors of minerals, rocks, fossils, shells and other materials related to mining and geology.

 

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