The museum is responsible for collecting and storing geological specimens from both China and abroad and for disseminating geological knowledge. It also carries out scientific and technological ...

It also offers a venue to do so in a region with a reputation for being among the most geologically flamboyant on our planet.

Today China has 44 national geological parks, thanks to a pilot program begun in 1999 by the Chinese Ministry of Land and Resources in cooperation with UNESCO to find a way to protect geological ...

RECENT additions to the collections of the Geological Museum include a number of specimens of beautifully banded pink rhodochrosite, from Minas Capillitas, Catamarca, Argentina. This mineral ...