The comprehensive hand specimen collection from the estate of the passionate rock collector Dr. Peter Berger is a valuable treasure in the Mineralogical Collection. Get to know the variety of rocks and the variability of individual rock groups and search for specific rock types or local characteristics.

Since the Hamburg Meteorite Collection was founded with the "Siderophyr von Steinbach" in 1863, it has succeeded through acquisitions and expeditions to the Antarctic, Mongolia and the Sahara to expand this collection to an extensive and significant meteorite collection with over 900 extraterrestrial finds.

The Mineralogical Museum's mineral collection contains minerals, gemstones and precious stones as well as syntheses and imitations of minerals. The collection provides the basis for mineralogical research and teaching at the University of Hamburg. It has grown since 1988 from about 1,600 to date (2022) about 3,155 of the currently approximately 5,800 recognized mineral species, making it one of the largest mineralogical reference collections in Germany. In the context of geodiversity research, numerous new minerals have been scientifically described in the Mineralogical Museum and are deposited in the museum as so-called type minerals.