Yevhen Lazarenko Mineralogical Museum is a museum in the city of Lviv, the first structural unit of geological profile created on the basis of mineralogical collections. The mineralogical museum was founded in 1852-1853 by professor of natural history, botanist, Hyacinth Lobazhevsky. The name of Academician Yevgeny Lazarenko was assigned to the museum in 1999.

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Structural unit of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv.
The museum exposition contains more than 14,000 samples of minerals from geological formations of Ukraine, as well as countries: Europe, Asia, America, Africa, Australia.

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The decoration of the museum is unique exhibits of minerals from Transbaikalia, Volyn, the Urals, Central Asia.

The main one is the stationary exposition of four departments, which correspond to the main directions of modern mineralogy and most of the mineralogical courses that are read in higher educational institutions:

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General mineralogy — selected samples of minerals that best characterize the features of constitution (isomorphism, polymorphism, etc.), morphology of mineral crystals, their regular layers and aggregates, some physical properties (adhesion, hardness, luster, color, etc.).

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Genetic mineralogy — minerals of magmatic, pegmatite, pneumatolithic-hydrothermal and metasomatic, metamorphic, hypergenic and sedimentary processes are exhibited. Special showcases are dedicated to the ontogeny and phylogeny of minerals, as well as synthetic compounds.

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Systematic mineralogy — collections of minerals arranged according to their crystalochemical classification. Each mineral species is represented by samples reflecting their individual characteristics and different paragenetic associations.

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Regional mineralogy — minerals from various geological formations and deposits of Ukraine, Caucasus, Transcaucasia, Primorye, Kola Peninsula, Urals and Periurals, Transbaikalia, Altai, Canada, Slovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia are exhibited.

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The museum has new minerals discovered over the past decades, as well as rare minerals or their derivatives that have been discovered on the territory of Ukraine.

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Temporary expositions are thematic and systematic, or dedicated to famous events and dates. Here, the scientific decoration of the museum is the thematic display “Meteorites”, opened in 1999, in which a collection of meteorites from different regions of the world is selected. The exhibition is complemented by illustrative posters about the mineral composition, structure and textural-structural features of meteorites. The museum is not only a base for the educational process and conducting scientific research. It is widely used to popularize geological and mineralogical knowledge.”

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