Dr Fawaz Azki Geological Museum 

Being careful to benefit the largest possible number of students and researchers of his discoveries ( rocks, minerals, and fossils), after finishing his technical work in the coastal mountains series, Dr Azki has transformed his own house in the village of Kismin (20 km

of Latakia, Syria) into  the first geological museum in Syria during the Summer of 2002.

The museum is divided into 2 sections:

-         The Open Air Museum: its 1500 square meter. It includes huge samples of all the rocks that one imagines it can be found in Syria (more than 60 samples). Its dimension ranges between  50cm and 200cm, and its weights between 75kg and 1500kg.

-         Every sample is labelled pointing out its name, components and the location which it was brought from.

-         The Open Air Museum includes as well an embodiment of a grazing dinosaure whose height is 7m and length 23m (following the international standards of the  measurements of its actual size), and it includes also an embodiment of another perishing, meat-eater dinosaur (Tyrranasaur) whose height is 3m and length 5m, not to mention an embodiment of the earth with diameter= 2m.

-         The interior Museum: is 130 square meter; it includes 3 sections. The Fossil section: it includes more than 120  fossils, representing all the fossils that can be found in Syria. They are situated in typical wooden boxes with frames of glass fronts, and  labeled, pointing out the name of the fossil, its age and the name of location it was brought from.

-         The Museum includes another section; it is devoted for the minerals (ore), and it includes more than 80 minerals, representing all the minerals of Syria. They are situated in typical wooden boxes with frames of glass fronts, and labeled, pointing out the name of the mineral, its components and source.

-         The Museum contains another section designated for Maps and epitomes. Its includes a scientific  geological, library with more than 1000 reference in English, Arabic, French, and Romanian languages, as well as very many tectonic embodiments, and many geological charts and maps for Syria, the most ancient  and important of which is the one drawn in 1945.

-         The Museum contains another section devoted for the lab to examine and cut the samples, in addition to Internet, a hall for the lectures, a small kitchen, a bath and a room for the researcher to rest or sleep in.

-         This museum aims at serving students, researchers, and the academic institutions. And it worth mentioning here that Dr Azki wishes that this museum would become a recognizable scientific, cultural and tourist site for the benefit of his own country, and he is in the process of erecting an astrological on the top of the geological museum.