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Thanks for visiting!
This campaign is now in update mode. To make a gift today, visit https://give.uafoundation.org/rri-gem-mineral-museum.
Our team continues to work on making the museum "visitor ready"! Lead by our new Exhibit Specialist, Elizabeth Gass, the team has been working on populating the museum display cases. The Mineral Evolution Gallery is the first museum gallery to be filled.
The museum was also recently featured in an article with UANews. For the full article, Click Here.
We are grateful to all of you that have supported this project. Thank you for making the UArizona Alfie Norville Gem & Mineral Museum one step closer to being a reality for all visitors to experience.
Sincerely,
The Museum Team
We are excited to announce that we have been challenged to increase our goal to $10,000. Donations will now be matched dollar for dollar, that goes directly towards the campaign. A donor has stepped up with an end-of-campaign personal match for all new donations; up to an additional $5000. The impact of your gift will now be doubled. Added funding will allow us to provide support to the museum through equipment for our staff and community space, support community programs and so much more!
Answer the challenge and make your gift today. If you have already donated, please share this message to get the word out about this campaign to others. We truly can't do this without you. Thank you!
Sincerely,
Museum Staff
Hello,
We are extremely humbled and grateful for all of our donors who have contributed to this campaign. Thanks to your generous support, we have had a record first week.
We hope to post special behind the scenes update of museum progress photos. In the meantime, please check out our website for recent images of the museum renovation at https://gemandmineralmuseum.arizona.edu/progress-photos.html
Thank you,
Museum Staff
A HUGE thank you to all of our supporters and our donors. We hit over $1,500 in donations towards the museum's campaign in our first day! (This might be a University of Arizona Crowdfunding record.) We are extremely grateful for each donor for making this possible.
Warm Regards,
Museum Staff
Diamonds have a mohs scale rating of 10, making it one of the toughest minerals known.
Arizona is the 48th state in the U.S. and known as the "Copper State." Arizona became a state largely due to the mineral and mining resources that the region brought to the United States.
Gold is both a mineral and an element. Gold is number 79 on the periodic table of elements.
The iconic Pima County Courthouse was designed 93 years ago in 1928 by Roy Place with the style of Spanish Colonial Revival.
The current number of mineral species that have been found in Bisbee, Arizona is 330. Bisbee is known for its mineral diversity.
The first references to the Mineral Museum appeared in the UA register in 1893. The university wanted to “make the Museum of Geology and Mineralogy an adequate representative of the ores and minerals of Arizona, as well as a place for the deposit of everything illustrative of the practical workings of the mines, mills and furnaces."
