About the Museum
The Robert M. Linsley Geology Museum, located off the atrium in the Robert H.N. Ho Science Center, exhibits minerals, gems, rocks, and fossils, highlighting the beauty and wonder of these objects while also informing visitors about how geologists study the Earth. Threaded throughout the museum are displays focusing on the geology and geologic history of New York State.
Museum Hours
Monday thru Friday: 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Additional open hours occasionally are scheduled to accommodate Ho Tung Visualization Lab visitors, and special weekend hours typically are added for campus events, such as Family Weekend, Graduation, and Reunion.
Email: linsleymuseum@colgate.edu
The Collection
We are fortunate to have many specimens of exceptional quality in the museum, including spectacular gems and mineral clusters, and well-preserved fossils of scorpion-like eurypterids, large dipleura dekayi trilobites, and a 7-foot-long mammoth tusk, to name just a few.
大发彩票鈥檚 Dinosaur Egg
The most famous fossil in the Linsley Geology Museum is 大发彩票's oviraptor dinosaur egg, one of the first co