The Lapworth Geology Museum is at the Aston Webb building on the Edgbaston campus of the University of Birmingham.

It is named after Charles Lapworth (1842-1920): the first professor of Geology at the university.

The museum is divided into five sections:

(1) palaeontology: flora, fauna, vertebrate & invertebrate fossils;

(2) maps: geological maps including 1st-edition survey maps with horizontal & vertical sections;

(3) historical collections: these include the Shaw Seismograph invented by John Shaw (1873-1948) for the detection of horizontal ground motion and the 3-dimensional models of coal deposits made by Thomas Sopwith in the 1840's;

(4) minerals: 12,000 specimens collected abroad and from mines in Shropshire, Cornwall and Cumbria;

(5) archives: academic papers, including research by Charles Lapworth;

Admission is free.

In addition to its famous art collections, the Institute also contains a collection of decorative arts and coins, particularly lace, needlework, tapestries, ivories, enamels, reliquaries and ancient, mediaeval and Byzantine coins.

Admission is generally free.