Earth's Treasures: Gems and Precious Metals

Tour the highlights of Earth's own treasure chest. Enter the exhibit through a pair of ancient gem embedded columns, and admire the mosaic floor in shades of aquamarine, citrine, sapphire, and garnet. The garden features natural gems and precious metals in their rock matrix and provides a visual contrast to the gem-highlighted marble walls, polished wood, and glass display cases beyond.

A meticulously curated selection of precious and semi-precious gems, both uncut and cut, are displayed alongside golden objects created by talented craftspeople of long-ago civilizations. The centerpiece of the exhibit is an ancient gold and fluorite crystal crown worn by a king whose name is lost in the mists of antiquity.