I absolutely love our Rock Museum. It is at 400 North Main Street downstairs from the Henderson County History Center. You can see giant geodes, a Tyrannosaurus skull and dinosaur eggs. There is a display of phosphorescent minerals.
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400 N Main St
Hendersonville, NC 28792
(828) 698-1977
www.mineralmuseum.org
The best part about the museum is the volunteers from the Henderson County Gem and Mineral Society. They love rocks and they love sharing them with you.
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You can see specimens of the fascinating minerals that can be found in Henderson County.
There is a display of glowing fluorescent minerals. You can click on different wave lengths of light to see these minerals phosphoresce.
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The Henderson County Mineral and Lapidary Museum has chunks of a meteorite that hit near Hendersonville in 1901 on display.
You can also see early local Native American archeological artifacts and touch giant trunks of petrified trees.
![Items on display at the Mineral and Lapidary Museum in Hendersonville, North Carolina near Meadowbrook Log Cabin](https://www.meadowbrooklogcabin.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/mineral-lapidary_museum-3.jpg)
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The museum also has rocks and minerals from all around the world. There is a giant amethyst geode that is way taller than me!
There are lots of fossils. You can touch real fossil duck-billed hadrosaur dinosaur eggs. See a replica tusk and femur from a prehistoric mastodon, a replica Tyrannosaurus rex skull and replica Smilodon, a sabre-tooth cat.
![Items on display at the Mineral and Lapidary Museum in Hendersonville, North Carolina near Meadowbrook Log Cabin](https://www.meadowbrooklogcabin.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/mineral-lapidary_museum-4.jpg)
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Displays vary. Sometimes they have examples of how gems are faceted. There are replicas of the Hope Diamond and other famous gemstones.
![Items on display at the Mineral and Lapidary Museum in Hendersonville, North Carolina near Meadowbrook Log Cabin](https://www.meadowbrooklogcabin.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/mineral-lapidary_museum-5.jpg)
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You can buy a geode and they will crack it for you to discover what is inside.
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If you have found something, you can bring it in for them to help you identify it.
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![The Henderson County History Center, the Genealogical and Historical Society is in the same building as the Mineral and Lapidary Museum in Hendersonville, North Carolina near Meadowbrook Log Cabin](https://www.meadowbrooklogcabin.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/rock_museum.jpg)
The Henderson County History Center, the Genealogical and Historical Society is in the same building.