EARTH SCIENCE MUSEUM

The Earth Science Museum (ESM) is a non-profit organization that was founded in July 2011 by members of various Earth science, lapidary, and prospecting clubs that met at the Arizona Mining and Mineral Museum. These members include several volunteers and former staff from the old museum... Over the years, the ESM has evaluated different private and public approaches to re-establishing a mineral museum in the Phoenix area. Building a new museum, however, involves a huge commitment of time, talent, and resources, and reaching the necessary "critical mass" has been a significant challenge. As a result, we are currently supporting a proposal in which the museum building and its assets along with the overall responsibility of reopening the museum are transferred to the University of Arizona... Over the past few years, we provided our free services as a "virtual museum" since we didn't have a physical facility. This will change as the effort to reopen the old mineral museum at the 15th..

Primary location: Phoenix United States