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HALLOWEEN AT THE GILLESPIE MUSEUM • Saturday, October 31 • 11:00 – 4:00 pm FOUNDERS / KEEPERS DAY • Friday, November 13 • 5:00 - 7:00 pm Previously... ECHO RANGERS: Passport to Earth's Treasures Family Day/Stetson University Open House • Saturday, October 17 • 10:00 am - 2:00 pm FIRST-YEAR FAMILY DAY • Saturday, October 24 • 1:00 – 3:00 pm SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE MUSEUM DAY • Saturday, September 26 • 10:00 – 2:00 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".