Minerals-pigments in the collections of the Natural History Museum of Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University

Today, minerals have a wide range of applications, among which the production of pigments holds a significant place. Green-colored minerals such as glauconite, celadonite, volkonskoite, and malachite are of particular interest. Paints based on natural minerals have played an important role in the development of global culture, especially in ecclesiastical art and iconography. In ancient times, artisans prepared paints from these pigments themselves, giving rise to names that may seem unusual to us but were familiar to them. This topic remains relevant today, as evidenced by the abundance of scientific and popular publications on the subject. Moreover, modern technologies facilitate the creation of new types of paints from natural minerals. A valuable resource for visual study, research on mineral pigments, their geographical distribution, and formation conditions is the mineralogical collections, particularly those of the Geological-Geographical Department of the Natural History Museum of Chernivtsi National University. Keywords: minerals-pigments, glauconite, celadonite, volkonskоite, malachite.