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CMS
March 2025 Presentation
Phil Persson will be presenting "A look at the
Remarkable Collection of the mim Museum, Beirut, Lebanon"
There will
be a raffle of 6 nice specimens at 8:30pm with $1 tickets
(cash only) that benefit the CMS education program.
We will also have a rock sale starting at 7:00pm with
donated specimens (cash, check, or credit card accepted).
Visitors and guests are welcome to attend the CMS meetings
and presentations.
“A
Look at the Remarkable Collection of the mim Museum,
Beirut, Lebanon”
Philip M. Persson
The mim (the
name is inspired by the 24th letter of the Arabic alphabet,
pronounced “mim”, which is also the first
letter of the worlds “museum”, “mineral”,
and “mines” in both Arabic and English) is
a public mineral museum located in Beirut, Lebanon.
It is the brainchild of Salim Eddé, a Lebanese
entrepreneur, collector and scientist. The museum, located
on the campus of Saint Joseph University in downtown
Beirut, opened in October of 2013.
The museum currently contains approximately 2500 specimens
and is organized both systematically and aesthetically
to stimulate excitement about minerals and the natural
world in the public of Lebanon and beyond. The focus
of the mim collection is both on world-class examples
of aesthetic minerals, as well as high-quality systematic
specimens representing rare and unusual minerals, ideally
in macroscopic, high-quality crystals. The museum attracts
nearly 40,000 visitors a year and is currently the #1
ranked activity in Beirut on the TripAdvisor website.
This presentation will introduce the audience to this
remarkable museum, certainly one of the most important
in the mineral world, and its world-class collection.
Philip
M. Persson |
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