Guangdong Geological Museum

Guangdong Geological Museum

Guangdong Geological Museum is a comprehensive regional geological science museum in China. It is located on Dongfeng East Road in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province. The museum was established in 1958 and officially opened to the public on October 1, 1959.

The museum houses approximately 40,000 specimens of various types, including minerals, rocks, paleontology, stratigraphy, tectonics, ore deposits, and dynamic geology. It includes ten exhibition rooms: General Geology, Paleontology, Stratigraphy, Mineral & Rock, Magmatic Rock, Mineral Resources, Crystal, Craft Art Mineral Raw Materials, Metal Ore Deposits, and Non-Metal Ore Deposits, displaying over 5,000 exhibits. Among them are the famous Yangjiaoling super-large quartz crystal deposit on Hainan Island, featuring large crystals, abundant crystal clusters in diverse shapes, and various twin crystals, microcline planes, blue needles, and etched surfaces. There are also a full set of 1:200,000 Nanling stratigraphic specimens and intrusive rocks, hypabyssal rocks, and extrusive rocks of different lithologies formed during various magmatic activity periods in Guangdong. In addition, there are complete specimen sets from hundreds of metal and non-metal ore deposits, such as the Shilu Iron Mine, Dabaoshan Polymetallic Mine, Fangkou Lead-Zinc Mine, and DJiangping Pyrite Mine. The museum also displays specialty minerals from Guangdong, such as platy wolframite, crystallized azurite, and ornamental malachite, as well as the province’s four famous stones: Duanzhou inkstone, Yingde Ying Stone, Yunfu Cloud Stone, and Xinyi jade, along with a variety of uniquely shaped stalactites. In addition to the commonly seen calcite stalactites,

there are also silica stalactites,

iron stalactites, copper stalactites, and basaltic stalactites. Dinosaur eggs from the Guangzhou geologic era, as well as fossils such as the Maoming ankylosaur-like turtle, are among the prized exhibits.