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Geology Hall stands on the Queens Campus of Rutgers University between Van Nest Hall and Old Queens, [3] at 85 Somerset Street, New Brunswick, New Jersey. [4] The building was designed by Henry Janeway Hardenbergh in a style its National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) nomination form describes as "straightforward and [employing] both Gothic elements and classical forms."
At present, the building houses administrative offices and the university's geological museum. The museum, which is among the oldest collegiate geology collections in the United States, was founded by state geologist and Rutgers professor George Hammell Cook in 1872. [25]
A museum of art and science; American art, decorative arts, and arts of Asia, Africa, the Americas and the ancient world; Planetarium, Victoria Hall of Science, natural science collections in geology, fossils and botany; Ballantine House, Newark Fire Museum and 1784 Old Stone Schoolhouse
Rutgers University Geology Museum in Geology Hall features exhibits on geology and anthropology, with an emphasis on the natural history of New Jersey. The largest exhibits include a dinosaur trackway from Towaco, New Jersey; a mastodon from Salem County; and a Ptolemaic era Egyptian mummy. [137]
The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, America's first natural history museum. There are natural history museums in all 50 of the United States and the District of Columbia. The oldest such museum, the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was founded in 1812. [1]
In life it would have been 9 feet 8 inches tall and 22 feet long. The specimen was curated by the Rutgers museum. [4] A major dinosaur discovery also occurred. Samuel Lockwood discovered Late Cretaceous dinosaur fossils along the shore of Raritan Bay at Union.
American Museum of Natural History: New York [38] Bear Mountain State Park (Geology Museum) [39] Buffalo Museum of Science: Buffalo [40] Cambridge High School (New York) Cambridge [41] Museum of the Earth: Ithaca [42] New York State Museum: Albany [43] Orange County Community College: Middletown [44] Rochester Museum and Science Center ...
It was founded in 1966 and later named after Jane Voorhees Zimmerli who was the mother of philanthropist Alan Voorhees. The Geology Museum is also located on college Avenue Campus. The Mason Gross Galleries are located downtown at Civic Square.