Please Read and Heed the Following Notes.
Note 1: At the present time we do not have a museum. We are attempting to find a suitable location. Until we locate one and get moved in we are unable to give tours.
Note 2: Unfortunately, Ray Meisenheimer, the Master of these Museum Tours and Educational Programs at other locations, passed away on July 1st of 2007. We assume he has gone on to a Higher Level of Rockhounding, Fossilizing, and Educational Tours. PLEASE do not disturb his family with calls regarding any of these or other similar things.
Note 3: To contact the club about anything at all go to our Contact Page (Close the new window to return here.) for phone numbers, etc.
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The Ventura Gem & Mineral Society, Inc. (VGMS)
Entertainment and Information Web Site.
Notice.
The VGMS Museum has found a new home. We'll let you know when it's open.
The Next Meetings of The VGMS
will be
a Board Meeting on December 4, 2008 and a General Meeting on December 10, 2008. Please note that, as usual, the November and December General Meetings are on the 2nd Wednesday. The locations are the usual ones. See below for a map of the General Meeting location.
Unless otherwise notified the Board Meetings are held at the Lexington, 5440 Ralston Street, Ventura, CA, and the General Meetings are held at the Senior Recreation Center, 420 East Santa Clara Street, Ventura, CA.
Everyone is invited to attend any of our General Meetings.
The location is on the southeast corner of the intersection.
The Purpose of The VGMS
is to
promote interest and to sponsor and provide means and activities which will result in the dissemination of information and knowledge in geology, mineralogy, paleontology, lapidary, and similar sciences; to conduct lectures, classes, or study groups to further education and interest in the aforesaid sciences; and to make and exhibit mineral collections.
In case we have you all excited about the purpose of the VGMS, here's an easy way to apply for membership. Click on the following link to the VGMS Membership Application and print the page on your printer. (Close the new window to return here.)
NOTE: You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view and print the form. If you do not have the Reader you may download it free from the Adobe Web Site. Proceed as follows to get the Reader:
Go to http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html). Follow the instructions on the page to get the free Reader. (Close the new window to return here.)
Fill out the form and then you can either mail it or bring it to the next regular meeting. Bringing it to the meeting is recommended so we can meet you. Click on this link to the VGMS Information Page to find information about our meetings or go farther down the page to see officers' phone numbers to call for more information. (Close the new window to return here.) The application will be presented at the next board meeting, which is normally a week after the general meeting, and we'll advise you how that turned out.
The VGMS Communications Page
is a place to use for
member communication between Meetings and Rockhound Ramblings. This can take place without playing phone tag. One member posts it any time. Other members can read it any time.
It could be a last minute field trip you want to tell other members about. It could be a class you think others might be interested in. It could also be a suggestion you have to improve some part of the operation of the Society. It could be anything (related to the VGMS) that can't wait until the next meeting or bulletin.
This is done through a password protected page on the VGMS Web Site. (As usual close the new window to return here.)
The following links are a few places you can visit. (Close the new window to return here.)
(DISCLAIMER: By linking to other web sites from anywhere on this site, the Ventura Gem and Mineral Society, Inc. does not imply endorsement of those sites or any of their content, or of products or services mentioned on them.)
The American Federation of Mineralogical Societies (AFMS).
We're affiliated with them.
The California Federation of Mineralogical Societies (CFMS).
We're a member.
- The California Oil Museum, perhaps better known as the Santa Paula Oil Museum, is the original headquarters of the Union Oil Company. The offices are still open for touring. The first floor is a museum containing "videos, working models, games, displays, and an authentic turn-of-the-century cable-tool drilling rig". That's from their web site. Fossils are included.
- The Worldwide Museum of Natural History which includes fossils, gems and minerals.
- A collection of pictures from the Smithsonian. Be patient. A lot of small images take a while to load but it's worth the wait. Click on the small images or the links to see larger images.
- A mineral cabinet currently displaying 300 specimens of common minerals taken from the collection of the Department of Mineralogy/Petrography at Bremen.
- The First Rockhound Magazine on the Internet.
- Go visit the Buena Vista Museum Of Natural History in Bakersfield, CA.
- The Searles Lake Gem & Mineral Society who are the nice folks that sponsor the annual Gem-O-Rama at Trona, CA, with the well known Searles Lake field trips.
- Check out the earthquake news with the USGS.
- See what the people up north do at the Indian Mounds Rock and Mineral Club of Wyoming, Michigan. Check out some of their activities such as monthly (during warm weather) picnics.
Learn how to contact
The VGMS
by going to the VGMS contact us page.
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Webmaster: James A. Layton,
Last Updated: 11-18-2008,
URL of this Page: http://www.vgms.org/index.shtm.
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