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The Quartermain Earth Science Centre is located within the historic Forestry & Geology building at the University of New Brunswick. 

The Quartermain Museum is currently closed due to COVID-19. For other viewings, visits and events, please get in touch with us for more information.

 

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The Quartermain Earth Science Centre highlights the beauty and excitement of geology in the form of exhibits, displays, programs and events.

 

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Whatever Your Interest And Skill, There Are Ways To Contribute To The Museum!

 

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Visit These Links To Learn More About QESC, The Department Of Earth Sciences And Much More!

 
 

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A great visit from Montgomery grade 1 students at the Quartermain Museum! Students were all geologists, exploring geological engineering, mining, palaeontology, and mineralogy! Thank you to all the amazing geo-students and QESC volunteers! Well don
Monday Geo-chuckle 🙂 #meme #geologymemes #humor #pun #planets #space
A blast of a visit by grade 4 students from Montgomery Street Elementary School! We learned about volcanoes - why they explode, eruption styles, hazards and more! Students built their own shield and strato-volcanoes, which we exploded outside on a
Monday Geo-chuckle 🙂 #meme #geologymemes #dinosaur #triceratops
Birds are migrating! Now that the new Quartermain Paleo to Bio exhibit space by the greenhouse is ready, the birds can finally move in! I think once the word gets out, we will see more and more fly in over the summer months. Thank you to QESC Assis
Monday Geo-chuckle 🙂 #meme #geologymemes #humor #science #chemistry
Monday Geo-chuckle 🙂 #meme #geologymemes #humor #rockpaperscissors
Where am I? Reading maps and finding your way around is an important skill when in the field! It is also important to accurately measure the orientation of rock outcrops and inclination of rock strata. During the first-year geology field course
Fantastic day with students from Montgomery Street Elementary! We explored the many ways to be a geologist with the passport activity. From mining and geoengineering to palaeontology and mineralogy, it was a great geo-time!! Thank you to our QESC vo
Monday Geo-chuckle 🙂 #meme #geologymemes #humor #rocks #geologists
Breaking up! In the field, geologists use a number of tools. In first-year geology field school for UNB students, hammers were used to break rocks, exposing fresh surfaces for analysis. Since the 1800s, the standard field hammer for geologists was
How high is it? Measurements at an outcrops can be done in multiple ways. During the first-year geology field course for UNB students, measurements were done in two ways: (1) using a Jacob staff. A Jacob staff, which can serve as a walking st
 

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