A. E. Seaman Mineral Museum

[1] Many of these specimens are native generally to Michigan, and more specifically to the Lake Superior region.

[3] The mineral museum first became a reality in 1902, when it was set up in the former Qualitative Laboratory room in Hubbell Hall[2] on Michigan Tech's campus.

[5] On June 17, 1976 the museum moved to the fifth floor of the Electrical Energy Resource Center at Michigan Tech,[6] built on the site of Hotchkiss Hall.

[9] In 2011, the museum moved to the new[10] Thomas D Shaffner Hall, across from the Advanced Technology Development Complex.

It is named for Thomas Shaffner, a Michigan Tech alumnus who donated $1 million for the new museum.

The Quincy Mine machine shop (seen in 2018 with its repaired roof) which was bought in 2005 for the museum
Portrait of Douglass Houghton in the museum
Silver-copper mineral specimen from Wolverine Mine , Houghton County, Michigan , formerly in the Seaman Museum collections. Size: 5.6 x 2.8 x 3.2 cm.
Large display of sheet copper from the White Pine mine at the museum entrance