Geological Collections

The Virtual Museum
of the Czech Geological Survey

This Virtual Museum provides an opportunity to visit on-line the paleontological, mineralogical and geological collections of the Czech Geological Survey. This main part of our Museum is allocated for the public at large.

Cephalopod limestone, Silurian, Ludlow, Kopanina FM

Here, you can observe most interesting showpieces of our collections and be informed a little more about them. In the palaeontological part of the Virtual Museum you can make a search for photographs of interesting exhibits of our paleontological collections, that are classified according to the modern paleozoological and paleobotanical systems. You can possibly also find out more detailed pieces of information on exhibits you are specially interested on. It is to be supposed that this Virtual Museum might properly complete the geology education on universities, high- and secondary schools. Therefore, modified paleontological system, published in the university textbook by Prof. Kvaèek, was used (The Principles of Systematic Paleontology I., Karolinum Press, 2000). However, in some details this published system was a little bit simplified and/or modified here in order to facilitate a search for entries. Our modified version also fits in with established conventions.

Ormathops (O.) atavus (Barrande 1872), Šárka FM, Middle Ordovician, 460 Ma, Rokycany

In the mineralogical and geological part of the Virtual Museum, the photographic documentation of voluminous mineralogical and geological collections of the Czech Geological Survey is available. These collections are registered as a whole in the Central Register of Collections (supervized and supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic). The exhibits are focused on the regional geology, trying to cover systematically the whole territory of the Czech Republic. So, they are really eceptional from this viewpoint. In the Virtual Museum the rocks are classified and subdivided into groups according to their origin. Moreover, Survey´s coding following web-sites of the Survey is respected. The minerals are classified after H. Strunz (ev. J. H. Bernard).