Museum of Mineralogy and Geology
Historic mineral and geology collection with roots in a sixteenth-century electoral art cabinet.
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This guide to the Museum of Mineralogy and Geology in Dresden's Japanese Palace opens in the first week of May 1849, when citizens rose against the King of Saxony and the government drew up a wanted list that included Richard Wagner and Gottfried Semper. It follows the royal natural history collections kept in the Zwinger as the fighting reached them. Along the way it reaches back to an Elector's art cabinet and a court inventory from 1587. Best heard leaning over one of the mineral cases.
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