Geological Museum named after Professor Umberto Fuensalida of Villegas is administered by Catholic University of the North. Here is a collection of exhibits on paleontology, Mineralogy and Geology. The Museum is located in the premises of the University. In its three main halls turned permanent exhibition: samples of minerals, minerals and fossils found in Northern Chile.

The first Museum collection was presented in 1972. After two years, it has become possible official opening of the first Chilean Geological Museum at the Institute of geological research in Antofagasta. At the end of 2012, after the reconstruction, which lasted two years, the doors of the Museum opened again for visitors. Recent changes undertaken in the Museum, turned it into one of the most modern centers in the country for the study of Geology and paleontology. In his exposition are 474 sample of fossils and 570 samples of rocks and minerals.

Here you can see the fossilized remains of prehistoric animals, minerals and other elements extracted from the bowels of the earth, as well as samples of meteorites. You will find yourself in a world that was a million years ago on this planet, learn about the prehistoric animals that lived on the sea and on land in the distant past, will see the remains of the reptiles of the Jurassic period.

During the Grand opening of its Director - Dr. Guillermo Chong Diaz - did a small survey forty-year history of the Museum, since its creation until today.