The Mineralogical Collection of the R.B.I.N
Captions of the figures
The Institute viewed from the Léopold park in Brussels (photo Th. Hubin)
Main entrance of the Museum (photo I. Bachy and Th. Hubin)
R.B.I.N., Janlet building
Exhibition room of paleontology : the iguanodons of Bernissart
(photo Th. Hubin)
Bernard du Bus de Gisegnies, director of the Museum between 1846- and 1867
Edouard Dupont, director of the Museum between 1868 and 1909
Gustave Gilson, director of the Museum between 1909 and 1925
Victor Van Straelen, director of the Museum bzetween 1925 and 1948
André Capart, director of the Institute between 1958 and 1978
Daniel Cahen, director of the Institute sinds 1988
Alphonse Renard, mineralogist of the Museum between 1877 and 1888
The parish of Ixelles in Brussels honoured A. Renard by giving him the name of a street
Julien Drugman (1873-1950) that beqqueaths his mineralogical collection
to the K.B.I.N.
Georges Vanacker that gives his mineralogical collection to the K.I.B.N. in 1991
Museum : exhibition room of the Belgian minerals
Museum : show case in the exhibition room of the Belgian minerals
Museum : general view of the exhibition room of mineralogy
Museum : Earth sphere in the exhibition room of mineralogy
Museum : calcite in the show case of the pseudomorphs (photo Th. Hubin)
Museum : detail of the show case of cristallography in the exhibition room
of mineralogy (photo Th. Hubin)