Rockhound Club & Mineral Museum

The Rockhound club is one of the oldest RSCS charted clubs in Sun City. It originated in 1960. The club offers monthly activities to include:

• Field Trips around Arizona for rock collecting
• Monthly meetings with world class guest speakers
• Show and tell sessions to share and learn
• Fun trips to explore points of interest in Arizona

The club also manages the Mineral Museum at the Sundial Recreation Center. Admission to the museum is free and it has over 1000 specimens on display with must see exhibits such as:

• Fluorescent mineral room with over 100 specimens
• Meteorite display
• Legacy southwestern mineral display on loan from University of Arizona
• Interactive map of Arizona of mineral collecting locations and specimens

The museum also has a gift shop and is open to the public.  Club members staff the museum and are eager to give you a tour of the museum. For groups of 6 or more, please email the museum to make special arrangements for touring the museum.

Membership is open to all RCSC cardholders.

• Club Meetings: Fairway Recreation Center
• Mineral Museum: Sundial Recreation Center (scrockmuseum@gmail.com)
• Museum Hours:
  • 10am – 1pm daily, closed Thursdays and Sundays, October through April
  • 10am – 1pm daily, Saturdays only, May through September

View the current edition of the “Rock Dust” newsletter here