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NEW Upcoming Events • Opening Reception: The Bugliness of Florida » Feb 12 • Greening Cape Canaveral » Apr 22 Saturday Family Days, Spring '10 • Rocks to Swap and Rain Barrels to Take Home » Jan 30 • For the Love of Birds and Bugs » Feb 13 • Homecoming Open House / Reptile Round-Up » Mar 20 • Earth Day Celebration! » Apr 17 OLD Holiday Open House • Friday, December 4 • 3:00 – 5:00 pm Project W.E.T. Workshop • Saturday, December 5 • 8:30 am – 3:30 pm The Gillespie Museum of Minerals is Stetson University's earth science museum. Its collection of 20,000 mineral, rock, and fossil specimens--one of the oldest and largest in the southeast US--has developed in its fifty years into a center for environmental education, including geology exhibits and displays on native Florida ecosystems and native plant landscapes, minerals and mining, and fluorescent rocks. The Museum is sited in a Flordia native plant landscape and the adjacent Rinker Environmental Learning Center provides opportunities for community gardening, environmental programming, and outdoor activities. The Museum is primarily staffed by Stetson University students and volunteers. We are open when the University is in session. Rinker Environmental Learning Center Check out our new program "Construction of a Green Building" which will be chronicling the construction of the Rinker Environmental Learning Center. Rinker Environmental Learning Center Slideshow Visit the Gillespie Museum and learn how the Earth influences our daily lives. Gain a greater awareness of our natural environment, our home planet Earth. Take a walk on the museum grounds amidst the abundant shrubs and trees native to Florida and enjoy this beautiful "Earth science museum in a natural setting".