Mineral and Lapidary Museum
Museum
Why pick this one
Mineral and Lapidary Museum offers free admission, fluorescent minerals, a Hendersonville meteorite exhibit, fossils, and on-site geode cracking.
Best for
- Visitors interested in minerals, gemstones, geology, and paleontology
- Families seeking fossil displays including a T-rex skull and woolly mammoth leg bone
- Visitors wanting to crack and identify crystals inside a geode
- People seeking Henderson County and North Carolina mineral exhibits
Look elsewhere if
- Visitors seeking exhibits focused primarily on art, general history, or subjects unrelated to earth sciences
Specialties
- On-site geode cracking and crystal identification
- Fluorescent mineral exhibits
- Hendersonville meteorite exhibit
- Fossil exhibits
Certifications
- 501(c)(3) nonprofit
- Henderson County Gem & Mineral Society affiliation
What makes them different
- Admission is free
- Displays minerals found in Henderson County and North Carolina
- Features the Hendersonville meteorite
- Includes a life-sized T-rex skull casting, woolly mammoth leg bone, and fossilized egg nest
- Visitors can purchase and crack uncracked geodes on site
- Serves
- Hendersonville
Distilled from this business's own website.
Contact & Location
- Address
- 400 N Main St, Hendersonville, NC 28792
- Phone
- +18286981977
- Website
- http://mineralmuseum.net/
Services
- Mineral and gemstone museum exhibits
- Geology and paleontology education
- Geode sales and cracking
- Museum gift shop