Why do precious stones tell our story and that of the Earth?

Precious Stones Exhibition.

Great Gallery of Evolution

By: Caroline Lachowsky

2 min

From raw minerals to the most sophisticated jewelry, a marvelous visit to the Precious Stones exhibition at the National Museum of Natural History

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Let's go to Wonderland today, between a diamond river, ruby ​​flowers, lapis lazuli eye and tourmaline tree, to wonder about all these stones - oh how precious - which crystallize and tell the whole story of the Earth but also that of the men and women who fashioned these natural masterpieces into jewels and adornment.

From raw minerals to the most sophisticated jewels, it's hard to say what is most fascinating in this exhibition that the National Museum of Natural History devotes to precious stones ... and to all their scientific, geological and aesthetic facets

With

, mineralogist, curator of the Pierres Précieuses exhibition held at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris until June 2021

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