The exposition “Mineralogy” presents a systematic and genetic collections of minerals taken from different world deposits which occupy 22 stands. The systematic collection reflects the variety and plenitude of chemical compounds. The minerals are arranged according to Y. Lazarenko’s modern classification which is based on their chemical components, dimensional arrangement of the crystal lattice, atoms or groups of elements, their chemical relations, coordination and packing. All minerals are divided into classes.

Petrography is a science which studies different types of rocks in detail. Such a studying is very important for searching mineral resources because the latter ones are the consttituent part of the rocks in the form of bodies of different shape, inclusions, etc. In most of cases the rocks themselves are mineral resources. All the rocks can be devided into the following types according to the conditions of their formation: igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic. All of these are shown in the exhibition which occupies 16 stands with the exhibits gathered from many coutries of the world.

The richness of the Ukrainian depths is shown in the exhibition. Here we can see coal from the Donbas; granites, quartzites, labradorites, pegmatites, quartzes, and topazes from Zhytomyr Region; complex ores, andesites, caolins, and cinnabars from Transcarpathian Region; gypsums, sulfur, osocerites from Lviv and Ivano-Frankivsk Regions; salts from Kalush potassium deposits. Oil is represented by exhibits from deposits of Dnipro-Donetsk depression and Precarpathian Region.

The exposition "Historical Geology" takes us back into the distant past and reveals the stages of the Earth crust development, changes in the flora and fauna during the geological time in the chronological sequence. The whole Earth history is divided into certain periods of time which are conditioned by different stages of development of the Earth crust, flora, and fauna. Thus, we distinguish the following five eras: Achaean, Proterozoic, Paleozoic, Mesozoic. All the periods of time, beginning with the time of the Earth crust formation and up to the modern times, are united in a chronological scale and represented on the stands by rock samples and fossils of the main groups of extinct organisms.

Paleontology studies all the organisms which existed during the geological history of the Earth. The simplest, acoelomates, bush-gill, brachiopoda, gasteropods, cephalopods, and arthropoda are represented in the exhibition. Among the simplest, the nomilites from the Crimea are exhibited, among the acoelomates - corals of different shape and colour, among the cephalopods - a slit of a nautilus. The arthropoda are represented by remained imprints of insects and butterflies. The class of fish is represented by imprints of fish of the Jurassic period found on the territory of Greenland, Lion, and Bavaria. The beasts are represented by individual bones, teeth, and jaw of a cave bear. There are also mammoth tusks.