The Museum of Ore Formations was founded in 1984 at the Faculty of Geology of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv on the initiative of the Head of the Department of Methods of Exploration and Exploration of Mineral Deposits Professor E. Lazka. However, it was officially registered in the status of a public museum of Ivan Franko LNU in 2007.

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The exhibits of the Museum are ores from more than 500 deposits of Ukraine and the world. There is a wide variety of stone and cartographic material (geological plans and sections of genotypic deposits), interesting and useful for any naturalist, geologist, mineralogist, petrographer, etc.

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The Museum has two open monographic expositions: “Golden-red Exposition” by Professor Yu. Lyakhov, containing rare stuffs of gold-containing ores of East Transbaikalia and “Piezo-optic exposition” of Professor A. Poznyur and head of the laboratory V. Kornilov, covering quartz crystalline raw materials of the Pegmatite deposits of Volyn.

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The Museum of Ore Formations is naturalistic in profile and has scientific, educational, general educational and aesthetic significance. It is visited by numerous excursions of fans of natural science, especially teachers and students of general schools, gymnasiums, colleges. Visitors to the Museum can find out what ores are, what are their main physical and chemical properties, how they can be useful for humans and how they arose.

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Funds are constantly replenished with deposits of ores collected in field expeditions in different regions. The materials in the closed funds of the museum have a special uniqueness and curiosity. They partly contain duplicates of demonstration ore deposits, partly — unworked collections assembled by different researchers. In recent years, the museum staff has begun work on reviewing closed museum collections, computerizing catalogs, creating a database, and working on the modernization of the museum.

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