The fascination of calcite
Museum für Naturkunde: Lecture by Dr Paul Rustemeyer on 18 October, 6.30 pm, in the TIETZ, event hall
On Wednesday 18 October at 6.30 pm, the next lecture in the traditional lecture series of the Friends of the Museum of Natural History Chemnitz will take place in the TIETZ event hall. The chemist and mineral collector Dr. Paul Rustemeyer from Gundelfingen will give an insight into the astonishing wealth of shapes and colours of calcite.
Admission is free, registration is not required.
Calcite, also known as calcite, is one of the most common minerals found on earth. It delights collectors with its great variety of shapes, twinning and interesting growth phenomena. The lecture introduces these worlds of shapes and growth stories with pictures of particularly interesting and magnificent calcite crystals. These have been photographed over decades in museums and private collections.
Although pure calcite is a colourless mineral, it can also be colourful due to "impurities" and optical phenomena. The aesthetic parts of the lecture are meditatively accompanied by music.
Dr Paul Rustemeyer has been collecting, examining and photographing crystals of various minerals since his childhood. His travelling exhibition "Crystal magic - the hidden magic of dark tourmalines" visited the Museum für Naturkunde Chemnitz back in 2014.