Flandrau Science Center

The museum, in Flandrau Science Center in Tucson, Arizona, United States, is the oldest continuously-curated mineral museum west of the Mississippi. Officially recognized in 1919, the museum is considered one of the five collections in the United States and contains over 27,000 minerals and 1,000 artifacts, including mineral specimens dating from 1892. During its long history, the museum has passed a series of milestones, including a gift in 2008 of $1 million from the Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Foundation Flandrau: The Science Center of the AU to support the Mineral Museum