| Naturalis, the National Museum of Natural History, is very proud of hosting this important symposium. The organizers made a right choice by selecting our museum for this expert meeting because our geological collections are famous. The collections (zoological, palaeontological and geological) are stored in the tower of the museum 20 floors high. In all more than 11,000,000 items. The geological collections have a wide scope thanks to, for instance: • The former mining industry in The Netherlands up to 1970. • Our former colonies, in particular the East-Indies, nowadays Indonesia. • Geological explorations all over the world by our scientists. • The transfer of geological collections by universities and the Dutch Geological Survey (NITG/TNO). Some of the... |
