Science - The Bruce Museum

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The Bruce Museum will be CLOSED on Friday, May 9, and Saturday, May 10, 2025, for the 2025 Bruce Gala Preparations. The Bruce Museum Store will remain open these days, 10am–4pm.

We will resume regular operating hours on Sunday, May 11, 2025. Plan your visit!

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The science collection focuses on natural history and includes minerals and fossils, bird and mammal mounts, butterflies and other invertebrates, reptiles, fish, and skeletons. It is the best collection of this type in the area between New York City and New Haven. The specimens represent worldwide localities and the collection grows through field collecting, donations, bequests, exchanges and purchases.

Birds Eggs Fish Fossils Insects and other Arthropods Mammals Marine Species Minerals and Rocks On View Skeletons

Barite

Guangdong, China Bruce Museum Collection 2019.4.35 Gift of Robert R. Wiener

Malachite

Bruce Museum Collection 2019.4.49 Gift of Robert R. Wiener

Stibnite

Wuning Mine, Jiangxi Province, China Bruce Museum Collection 2019.01.32

Chalcopyrite with Quartz

Bruce Museum Collection 2019.4.23 Gift of Robert R. Wiener

Pyrite on Calcite,

Chenzhou, China Bruce Museum Collection 2019.4.26 Gift of Robert R. Wiener

Stilbite and Apophyllite on Quartz

Bruce Museum Collection

Gypsum “Ram’s Horn”

Chihuahua, Mexico Bruce Museum Collection 2019.4.48 Gift of Robert R. Wiener

Quartz and Hematite

Lechang Mine, Guandong Province, China, Bruce Museum Collection 2019.01.04

Layered Gypsum

Chinkapook Lake, Australia Bruce Museum Collection 2019.4.62 Gift of Robert R. Wiener

Selenite

Mexico Bruce Museum Collection 2019.4.52 Gift of Robert R. Wiener