James Mitchell Geology Museum

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Current status

The museum is funded by small contributions from the recurrent grant to the Department of Geology and small, periodic donations from local business and industry. Curatorial work in the museum is voluntary and is carried out by the authors who also support a full enquiry service. School and college parties are catered for by appointment. Moreover the museum has an active role within most geological events in the west of Ireland, for example, Irish Geology Day, Adult Education classes and visiting conferences and field trips. Details of the gallery's history, its displays and collections together with the refurbishment
programme have been documented in a newly-published book - An Irish Geological Time Capsule: The James Mitchell Museum, University College Galway, edited by David A.T. Harper and available from the museum. The chapters include illustrated accounts of the museum's fossil (by David Harper and Anna Jeffrey) and rock and mineral collections (by Martin Feely, Maura Madden, Jerry Lidwill, Paul Mohr and Michael Williams) together with an authoritative review of the relationship of the museum to the college and the community (by Timothy Collins). Copies of the book, at £5 including postage, are available from the authors at the address below.

Martin Feely
Department of Earth & Ocean Sciences,
N.U.I., Galway.

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