Netherlands lunar sample displays

The Netherlands lunar sample displays are two commemorative plaques consisting of small fragments of Moon specimens brought back with the Apollo 11 and Apollo 17 Moon missions and given to the people of the Netherlands by President Richard Nixon as goodwill gifts.

[3] In 1973 Nixon had the plaques sent to 135 countries, and to the United States with its territories, as a goodwill gesture.

[3] According to Moon rock researcher Robert Pearlman, both the Netherlands Apollo 11 and Apollo 17 lunar sample displays are in the National Museum of the History of Science and Medicine in Leiden, Netherlands.

[4][5][6] As it turned out the prime minister had misidentified and marked the object as a moon rock after he received it from an American diplomat.

The museum then made a second error when it put the object on display and identified it as a moon rock without verifying its authenticity first.