All that glitters is not gold

Meeting place: Lobby of the Museum of Man and Nature

Guided tour Andrea Koch, 1 hour (children ages 8 and up)

In the "Colorful World of Minerals" section, we set out in search of a shiny gold mineral. Who will find it? But many a gold prospector has been bitterly disappointed because they mistook shiny yellow fool's gold for valuable gold. How can we actually tell these two beautiful shiny minerals apart? And what exactly is a mineral? We will Guided tour these questions and more in the Guided tour