Our collection includes parts of collections that were invenoried individually in the past.
(in brackets: original numbers of specimens and year of acquisition)
• collection of Count Brunswick, Countess Forray and Countess Chotek (originally 3755 specs., 1827/1850)
• collection of Lt-Col. János Gyurcsák (1834)
• collection of the Royal Hungarian Natural History Society (originally 1449 minerals and rocks plus 1 meteorite; 1856)
• collection of the Lobkowitz Princes (originally 39 425 minerals, rocks and fossils; 1870)
• collection of András Mikecz (1851)
• collection of Baron Károly Podmaniczky (originally 3524 specs., 1842)
• collection of Louis Ransonnet-Villez (1848/49)
• collection of János Schuster (before 1848)
• collection of István Szaibély (1839)
In addtion, we preserve remains of some other larger private collections: They are the collections of
• the Esterházy Princes (mineralogical part: originally 4767 pcs, 1882/1883)
• Anton Fauser (originally 3436 items, 1885)
• Pál Kitaibel (originally 772 items, 1818)
• Schuchardt (Görlitz) (originally 5079 pcs, 1890)