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The Robert M. Linsley Museum houses displays of minerals, rocks, fossils, and the geology of New York State. We are fortunate to have specimens of exceptional quality, including spectacular mineral clusters, gems, local Herkimer "diamonds," well-preserved eurypterids (our state fossil), large Dipleura trilobites, and teeth of the extinct mammoth and mastodon that once roamed this region, to name a few. A recent addition to the museum is a mural painted by local artist, Rachel Amann, that depicts life in Hamilton during the Devonian period when the sediments composing our local bedrock were deposited approximately 375 million years ago. The museum also displays a replica of Colgate's Oviraptor dinosaur egg, one of the first dinosaur eggs ever discovered. The Linsley Museum is open during regular business hours Monday through Friday, 8am to 5pm.
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