{"id":88,"date":"2021-11-08T10:10:27","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T15:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/mineralogical-museum\/?page_id=88"},"modified":"2025-10-14T14:41:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T19:41:01","slug":"splash-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/mineralogical-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Splash Page"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Opened in 1971 and renovated in 2009, the Mineralogical Museum has approximately 350 specimens on display.&nbsp;The entire collection contains more than three thousand specimens of minerals, meteorites, gemstones and carvings and is divided into a display collection and a reference collection. The founding collection, gifted to the University of Delaware in 1964 by Ir\u00e9n\u00e9e du Pont, shows early examples from gemstone mining in the United States and South America and major finds from Europe. Other cases show specimens from the different continents and individual themes of crystallography and cave minerals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"654\" src=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/mineralogical-museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/244\/2023\/07\/mineralogicalHome-1024x654.jpg\" alt=\"Image of interior of Mineralogical Museum gallery with minerals in cases.\" class=\"wp-image-113\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/mineralogical-museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/244\/2023\/07\/mineralogicalHome-1024x654.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/mineralogical-museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/244\/2023\/07\/mineralogicalHome-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/mineralogical-museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/244\/2023\/07\/mineralogicalHome-768x490.jpg 768w, https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/mineralogical-museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/244\/2023\/07\/mineralogicalHome.jpg 1175w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For information about the Mineralogical Museum, please contact Curator Sharon Fitzgerald at slfitz@udel.edu or 302-831-6557.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Credits<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-background\" style=\"background-color:#00539f\">Curator &#8211; Sharon Fitzgerald<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opened in 1971 and renovated in 2009, the Mineralogical Museum has approximately 350 specimens on display.&nbsp;The entire collection contains more than three thousand specimens of minerals, meteorites, gemstones and carvings and is divided into a display collection and a reference collection. The founding collection, gifted to the University of Delaware in 1964 by Ir\u00e9n\u00e9e du [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-exhibition-splash.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-88","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/mineralogical-museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/88"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/mineralogical-museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/mineralogical-museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/mineralogical-museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/mineralogical-museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/mineralogical-museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/mineralogical-museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/88\/revisions\/123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/mineralogical-museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}