Want to touch rare rocks and crystals? Visit Pune's Geology Museum

A wide range of rocks, crystals, minerals and fossils are on display at a newly-developed museum in the campus of a city-based premier engineering institute, where people can not just view but also touch and handle these rare exhibits. A collection of sedimentary rocks put on display at College of Engineering Pune Technological University's newly set-up Geology Museum, in Pune. The 'Geology Museum' opened last month in the College of Engineering Pune Technological University in Shivajinagar area in the heart of the city provides an opportunity to researchers, students and amateur geologists alike to handle and have a first-hand experience of the geological treasure, which comprises as many as 22,000 specimens. Housed in a heritage structure built in 1892, which used to serve as a "principal's bungalow" during the British era, the museum has several rarest of the rare rocks, fossils, minerals and crystals, which experts said include those formed first on the Earth's crust, different types of igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks.