Museum für Mineralogie und Geologie Dresden, Mineralogy and geology museum in Dresden, Germany.

The Museum for Mineralogy and Geology in Dresden displays minerals, rocks, fossils, and meteorites gathered from around the globe. Its collection contains more than 400,000 specimens distributed across different buildings for study and public viewing.

This institution began in 1587 when the first collection items were recorded in the Dresden Palace Art Chamber. The collection grew significantly over centuries into a major museum dedicated to natural sciences.

The museum's origins lie in the Dresden Kunstkammer, a universal treasure chamber set up in 1560 by Elector August. An inventory of 1587 already lists pieces such as the amethyst from Warmbad and the jasper from Lungwitz, which the collection cites as its founding objects. The mineral cabinet split from the Royal Natural History Museum in 1857.

The main collections are housed in buildings located in northern Dresden, with some areas serving as research and storage facilities. Check in advance which displays and exhibits are open to the public at each location.

The Richard Baldauf Collection, held since 1940, is one of Europe's most valuable early 20th-century private mineral collections and is almost completely preserved. Its roughly 10,000 pieces include crystals and gemstones, but the museum has no notable exhibition space, so the collection is stored in the A. B. Meyer-Bau in Klotzsche and only partly accessible to the public.