This is a list of lunar sample displays from the Apollo program that were distributed through the United States and around the world. They include samples from the Apollo 11 and Apollo 17 missions conducted by NASA in 1969 and 1972.
The Apollo 11 mission to the surface of the Moon returned a few dozen pounds/kilos of lunar material (mainly rock and dust), and the US put about 0.05 grams in small display cases and gave one apiece to the 50 U.S. states, to the nations of the world, and to political entities like the U.S. territories under administration.[1] This was done again with an Apollo 17 sample (Lunar basalt 70017).[1] There are a few samples from Apollo 15 on display.
The display cases included a lunar sample and small flag of the respective political entity that had been to the Moon and back. Approximately 135 displays were gifted to nations of the world at that time, so nations created since then are not included and some displays have been inherited from past nations
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Giftee | Apollo 11 | Apollo 17 | Apollo 15 | ||||
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Afghanistan | |||||||
Albania | |||||||
Algeria | |||||||
Andorra | |||||||
Argentina | Galileo Galilei planetarium, Buenos Aires[3] | ||||||
Australia | National Archives of Australia, Canberra[3] | National Museum of Australia, Canberra[2] | |||||
Austria | Technisches Museum Wien, Vienna[3] | Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna[2] | |||||
Bangladesh | Bangabandhu Military Museum[18] | ||||||
Barbados | |||||||
Belgium | Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences, Brussels | ||||||
Bhutan | |||||||
Bolivia | Planetario Max Schreier, La Paz[2] | ||||||
Botswana | |||||||
Brazil | Unknown[4] | Bagé | |||||
Bulgaria | National Museum of Natural History, Sofia[2] | ||||||
Burma | National Museum of Myanmar (Yangon) | ||||||
Burundi | |||||||
Cameroon | |||||||
Canada | Unknown[4] | Canada Science and Technology Museum | |||||
Cambodia | National Museum of Cambodia[19] | ||||||
Central African Republic | |||||||
Ceylon (Sri Lanka) | Colombo | ||||||
Chad | |||||||
Chile | Eduardo Frei Montalva's Historic House Museum, Santiago[3] | Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Santiago[2] | |||||
China | Unknown | Beijing Planetarium, Beijing[fn 1] | |||||
Colombia | Bogotá Planetarium, Bogotá[2][3] | ||||||
Congo (Brazzaville) | |||||||
Congo (Kinshasa) | |||||||
Costa Rica | Museo Nacional de Costa Rica, San Jose[2][3] | ||||||
Cuba | |||||||
Cyprus | |||||||
Czechoslovakia | Vojenský historický ústav, Prague[3][23] | ||||||
Dahomey | |||||||
Denmark | Natural History Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen[2][3] | ||||||
Dominican Republic | Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Santo Domingo[2][3] | ||||||
Ecuador | |||||||
Egypt | Egyptian Geological Museum, Cairo[24] | ||||||
El Salvador | MUNA, Zona Rosa[2] | ||||||
Equatorial Guinea | |||||||
Ethiopia | |||||||
Finland | Urho Kekkonen Museum Tamminiemi, Helsinki[3] | GTK, Otaniemi[2] | |||||
France | Muséum d'histoire naturelle, Nantes[2] | Palais de la Découverte, Paris[2] | |||||
Gabon | |||||||
Gambia | |||||||
Germany | Naturmuseum Senckenberg, Frankfurt[3] | Deutsches Museum, Munich[2] | Technik Museum, Speyer[25] | ||||
Ghana | |||||||
Greece | |||||||
Guatemala | Ministry of Culture and Sport, Guatemala City[3] | ||||||
Guyana | National Museum of Guyana, Georgetown[2] | ||||||
Haiti | |||||||
Honduras | Unknown[4] | Tegucigalpa | |||||
Hungary | Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum, Budapest[2][3] | ||||||
Iceland | The Exploration Museum, Húsavík | ||||||
India | Parliament Museum, New Delhi[2] | ||||||
Indonesia | |||||||
Iran | |||||||
Iraq | |||||||
Ireland | Dunsink[fn 2] | National Museum of Ireland | |||||
Israel | Israel State Archives, Jerusalem[27][28] | Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv (presumed)[28] | |||||
Italy | Museo Nazionale Della Scienza E Della Tecnologia "Leonardo da Vinci", Milan[2] | ||||||
Jamaica | |||||||
Japan | National Museum, Tokyo[2][3] | ||||||
Jordan | |||||||
Kenya | |||||||
Korea | National Museum of Korea, Seoul[3] | National Science Museum, Daejeon[2] | |||||
Kuwait | |||||||
Laos | |||||||
Lebanon | |||||||
Lesotho | |||||||
Liberia | |||||||
Libya | |||||||
Liechtenstein | Schatzkammer Liechtenstein, Vaduz[29] | ||||||
Luxembourg | |||||||
Madagascar | |||||||
Malawi | |||||||
Malaysia | Natural History Museum, Putrajaya[3] | ||||||
Maldives | National Museum, Male[3] | ||||||
Mali | |||||||
Malta | Gozo Museum | ||||||
Mauritania | |||||||
Mauritius | National History Museum, Mahebourg | ||||||
Mexico | Universum, Museo de las Ciencias, Mexico City[2][3] | ||||||
Monaco | |||||||
Mongolia | |||||||
Morocco | |||||||
Muscat and Oman | |||||||
Nauru | |||||||
Nepal | National Museum of Nepal, Kathmandu[2][3] | ||||||
Netherlands (Dutch) | National Museum of the History of Science and Medicine, Leiden[2][3] | ||||||
New Zealand | Museum of New Zealand[2][3] | ||||||
Nicaragua | |||||||
Niger | |||||||
Nigeria | |||||||
Norway | Trondheim Science Museum | Natural History Museum at the University of Oslo | |||||
Pakistan | |||||||
Panama | |||||||
Paraguay | |||||||
Peru | |||||||
Philippines | |||||||
Poland | Olsztyńskie Planetarium i Obserwatorium Astronomiczne, Olsztyn[2][3] | ||||||
Portugal | |||||||
Romania | Muzeul Naţional de Istorie a României, Bucharest[3] | ||||||
Rwanda | Kandt House Museum of Natural History, Kigali[2] | ||||||
San Marino | |||||||
Saudi Arabia | |||||||
Senegal | |||||||
Sierra Leone | Sierra Leone National Museum, Freetown[30][31] | ||||||
Singapore | Singapore Science Centre[2][3] | ||||||
Solomon Islands | National Museum[2] | ||||||
Somalia | |||||||
South Africa | Old Parliament Bldg., Cape Town[3] | Transvaal Museum, Pretoria[2] | |||||
Southern Yemen | |||||||
Soviet Union | Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics, Moscow[3] | ||||||
Spain | Museo Naval, Madrid[2] | ||||||
Sudan | |||||||
Swaziland | |||||||
Sweden | National Museum of Science and Technology, Stockholm[2] | ||||||
Switzerland | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich[3] | Swiss Museum of Transport, Lucerne[2] | |||||
Syria | |||||||
Taiwan | National Museum of Natural Science, Taichung[3] | ||||||
Tanzania | |||||||
Thailand | |||||||
Togo | |||||||
Trinidad and Tobago | |||||||
Tunisia | |||||||
Turkey | Natural History Museum, Ankara[2] | ||||||
Uganda | |||||||
United Kingdom | Waiting area, 10 Downing Street, London[32] | Natural History Museum, London[33] | |||||
Upper Volta | |||||||
Uruguay | Boiso Lanza Air Base[2][3] | ||||||
Vatican City | Vatican Museum[3] | Vatican Observatory[2] | |||||
Venezuela | |||||||
Vietnam | |||||||
Yemen | |||||||
Yugoslavia | Museum of Yugoslav History, Belgrad[2][3] | ||||||
Zambia. | |||||||
United Nations |
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