Rutgers Geology Museum (Exhibit Highlights)

Exhibit Highlights

Museum exhibits include a wide variety of geological, anthropological, and natural history specimens. Some of the highlights of the museum collection include:

A dinosaur trackway from Towaco, NJ, with a model of Grallator, the small carnivorous dinosaur believed to be associated with these tracks.
A mastodon from Salem County, NJ. This nearly complete specimen of Mammut americanum, was found in 1869. The skeleton was mounted in 1896 and remounted in 1932.
A Ptolomaic era Egyptian mummy. This 2,400 year old mummy was brought to Rutgers by a missionary of the Dutch Reformed Church.
Mineral exhibits featuring the zeolite minerals of Paterson, NJ, and the zinc minerals of Franklin, NJ.
The Anne and Milton Hershhorn Fluorescent Mineral Exhibit. The fluorescent minerals, most of which are from New Jersey, are part of the 6,000-specimen lifetime mineral collection donated to the museum by Milton Hershhorn.



Main Menu Home About the Museum Exhibits Collections Visit the Museum Tours Birthday Parties News & Events Friends of the Museum Support the Museum Facebook Contact Us Quick Links RU Main Undergraduate Education Earth & Planetary Sciences Rutgers Science Explorer MSLC Zimmerli Museum		Exhibit Highlights Museum exhibits include a wide variety of geological, anthropological, and natural history specimens. Some of the highlights of the museum collection include: A dinosaur trackway from Towaco, NJ, with a model of Grallator, the small carnivorous dinosaur believed to be associated with these tracks. A mastodon from Salem County, NJ. This nearly complete specimen of Mammut americanum, was found in 1869. The skeleton was mounted in 1896 and remounted in 1932. A Ptolomaic era Egyptian mummy. This 2,400 year old mummy was brought to Rutgers by a missionary of the Dutch Reformed Church. Mineral exhibits featuring the zeolite minerals of Paterson, NJ, and the zinc minerals of Franklin, NJ. The Anne and Milton Hershhorn Fluorescent Mineral Exhibit. The fluorescent minerals, most of which are from New Jersey, are part of the 6,000-specimen lifetime mineral collection donated to the museum by Milton Hershhorn.

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