Since 2020, L’ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts has supported the development of the Mineralogy Museum of Mines Paris - PSL; it is within this framework that it has accompanied the publication of this book.
Nestled in the heart of the Latin Quarter, the Mineralogy Museum of the École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris contains nearly 100,000 minerals, rocks, meteorites and gems, making up one of the world's largest heritage collections of mineralogy. This "inventory of the Earth", created since 1794 for scientific, educational and industrial purposes, is displayed for visitors to see in a magnificent display of wooden cases, unchanged since the 19th century. Rich in remarkable samples whose beauty fascinates, the various collections of the museum are an invitation to travel through geological times, but also in the history of humanity and the complex relationships it has with the priceless treasures that nature offers.
Author: Didier Nectoux, director of the Mineralogy Museum of Mines Paris - PSL and Eloïse Gaillou, curator of the Museum of Mineralogy, in charge of collections and exhibitions, research and teaching.
Editor: Gallimard (Collection Découvertes) / L’ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts
Publication Date: September 2022
76 pages, 100 illustrations
Available in French
Price: 14,50 euros
