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The Professor Djalma Guimarães Mineralogy Museum is a Brazilian museum that deals with mining and world mineralogy. It is located in Praca da Liberdade in Belo Horizonte, and until 2010 was housed in one of the most postmodern buildings in the city, nicknamed "Queen of Junk". The museum was created by Mayor Oswaldo Pieruccetti in 1974 and set up with the collaboration of the Minas Gerais State Administration, which ceded the collection of the former Permanent Sample Fair. Until 1992, the MMPDG worked at Rua da Bahia, corner of Avenida Augusto de Lima, where the Belo Horizonte Culture Center operates today. In June 2000, it was reopened through the joint efforts of the city of Belo Horizonte, through the Municipal Secretariat of Culture, the State Secretariat of Mines and Energy and COMIG, as an integral part of the mining memorial. In 2010, the museum became part of the Mines and Metal Museum, created in the same Liberty Square. The collection has about one thousand samples exposed, out of a total of three thousand, with 70% to 80% coming from Minas Gerais, about 10% to 15% from other states, and the rest from other countries.

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