Musée de minéralogie

Two rooms are dedicated to him in a building of the School and Observatory of Earth Sciences (EOST) also housing the Laboratory of Hydrology and Geochemistry.

[2] The origin of the mineral collection is the work of a professor of medicine from Strasbourg, Johann Hermann, who had set up a cabinet of curiosities in the 18th century.

The main founders of this original collection were professors of international reputation: Paul Groth, mineralogist,[6] and Émile Cohen, petrographer.

[9] X-ray generators, one of the oldest electron diffractors built in France after 1950, cathode ray tubes from Crookes, Coolidge, Hadding, X-ray emission devices created in the former mineralogy laboratory, old crystallographic instruments (polarizing and converging light microscopes, Wollaston and Groth goniometers, theodolite, reflection) constitute a remarkable batch of scientific apparatus[10] from the 19th and 20th centuries.

Crystallographic models in glass and cardboard, wood and colored wire, as well as pastels formerly intended for teaching occupy several showcases.