Musée de minéralogie et de pétrographie d'Ambazac

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The Ambazac Museum of Mineralogy and Petrography is a French mineralogy museum located in Ambazac, Haute-Vienne. It has been open since 1999. Its foundation owes to the involvement of geologist Cyrille Dumoulin, former head of the training centre for uranium prospectors in Razès.

Its collections include several thousand samples, including a set of minerals, fossils and uranium prospecting equipment, linked to the extensive mining activity of the Ambazac Mountains, a major uranium mining site in France. COGEMA is responsible for part of the collections. According to the National Museum of Natural History, as part of the National Inventory of Natural Heritage, the collections of the Ambazac Museum make it one of the 10 best mineralogy museum in France.

It is listed among the mineralogy museums worthy of visit by the Museum of Mineralology managed by the École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris.