Information about the Geological Museum
The idea of creating a geological museum arose in the early 80's XX century. and began to be implemented in Lutsk Pedagogical Institute named after Lesya Ukrainka thanks to the support of the then Rector N.V. Burchak.On the formation of a collection of minerals, rocks and paleontological remains of dead organisms worked Doctor of Geological Sciences, Professor of the Department of Physical Geography F.V. Zuzuk and then dean of the Faculty of Natural Geography, Candidate of Biological Sciences, Professor V. Active participation in the collection of museum materials was taken by students of the faculty during the practice in different parts of the former Soviet Union - the Far East and Primorye, Zabaykalli, Central Asia, the Kola Peninsula, the Urals and the Caucasus.The collected collection became the basis for the opening on September 18, 1998 rector, doctor of chemical sciences, Professor I. D. Oleksiuk of the laboratory of minerals on the rights of the geological museum. Candidate of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences, Associate Professor G.V. Belsky was appointed the head of the laboratory.In 2009, on the initiative of Professor Zuzuk F.V., work was started on the reorganization of the laboratory of minerals of the Department of Geography into a geological museum. According to the order of the Rector of the Volyn National University named after Lesya Ukrainka Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor I. Y. Kotsan, the minerals laboratory received the status of a geological museum from September 1, 2010. In the same year, the museum received the relevant constituent documents: certificate and passport.The Geological Museum of the Eastern European National University named after Lesya Ukrainka is in the management of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine and is part of educational work. It was created to demonstrate natural geological exhibits of Volyn, Ukraine, regions of Europe, Asia and Africa with the aim of in-depth study of courses of geology, geomorphology, ecology by students of geographical, biological, chemical faculties and pedagogical institute. It is also designed for group work with high school students of secondary schools and gymnasiums and conducting classes with students of the Small Academy.
The museum exhibits collections of minerals and rocks.
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Type of nugging minerals. The museum's collection features nugget copper from the Zhirichi deposit near Ratno and various morphological sulfur types from Novy Rozdol and Yavoriv in Lviv region.
Type of sulfides . There are samples ofsphalerite, galenite, chalkpyrite, pyrite, pyrotene from different regions of the Russian Federation and Kazakhstan.
Type of oxides.
The class of oxides and hydroxides is widely presented in the form of samples of hematite,magnetite, marazite, manganese oxides, aluminum from Kryvyi Rih, the Urals, Kazakhstan, etc.
The silica class is marked by the largest and most diverse collection. First of all, it is a group of quartz, chalcedon, opal. Quartz in the museum is presented in the form of large morion crystals, friends of crystal, lilac amethyst, solid milky white and pink onyx, golden citrin, there are different shades of chalcedon and were found from Ukraine, Europe, Asia and Africa.
Field sleepers of Zhytomyr region, Russian Federation, Kazakhstan, South America are also diverse – this is a colorless orthoclase, blue-green Amazonite, yellow-gray plagioclas, black with labrador i arizona.
The collection has large beautiful crystals of beryl and topaz from the famous Volodarsk-Volynsk deposit in Ukraine. A large variety of mica and hydroscience from transparent muscovy to black biotitis, there are also pyrokenes, amphiboles, clay minerals – kaolin and montmorionitis.
The class of borats is served in the form of beautiful bischofite crystals.
Phosphates class is primarily sugar-like apatites from the Kola Peninsula, a large "core" of Podilsky phosphates weighing 35 kg., kerchenite from the Kerch iron ore deposit.
The carbonate class is primarily friends of calcite from different regions of the former Soviet Union: milky white and gray calcite, fiergan aragonite, pink rhodonite and, of course, green of different shades with a beautiful picture on polished Amazonite stuffs with malachite from the Urals, Kazakhstan and Africa.
The tungsten class is served with black tungsten and grayish-white sheelite.
The class of sulfates is primarily gypsum in the form of friends, transparent crystals, solid gray masses, fiister formations (selenite) from the deposits of Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and the Russian Federation.
The type of haloids is fed with galite – friends of transparent and blue crystals of solid mass, sylvin – pink solid mass from the deposits of The Carpathians, Russian Solikamsk and Kazakhstan.
The museum has a large collection of rocks: magmatic - primarily granites from different regions of Ukraine, Karelia, diorites, Siena, gabbro, basalts, liparites, etc.; sedimentary – sandstones, conglomerates, alurolites, clays, limestones, merhels, shoes, etc.; metamorphic – gneisses, migmatites, shale, marbles, etc.
The museum has a small fauna collection, as well as a collection of sea corals from the Black and Red Seas, and the central part of the Indian Ocean.
In general, the exposition is built in accordance with the curriculum in geology. It is quite rich and well formed. It is based on 16 thematic sections.
The total number of exhibits in the exposition is 650.
The total number of exhibits of the auxiliary fund is 1535.
The total areaof the museum : 187.5 m2, of which - exposition - 90.8 m2, fund storage - 68.8 m2, utility room - 27.9 m2.
Memorable dates:
date of foundation – 18.09.1998 – minerals laboratory;
date of creation – 01.09.2010 – Geological Museum;
date of receipt of the certificate and passport – 03.12.2010
Founder, owner: Eastern European National University named after Lesya Ukrainka
Mainservices : planned, thematic and introductory excursions.
Head ofthe museum : Oleg Melnyk.
Profile ofthe museum : natural.
Form of ownership: state.
Status: University Museum.
