Amber museum in Kaliningrad

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The Kaliningrad Amber Museum is a museum located in the Russian city of Kaliningrad devoted to housing and displaying amber artworks. It is located in the city center, on the shore of Lake Verkhneye. Construction on the museum began in 1972. The museum opened in 1979 and houses about 14,000 individual pieces. The museum occupies part of a reconstructed Teutonic[disambiguation needed] castle, originally built by Karl Friedrich Emil zu Dohna-Schlobitten in the Napoleonic wars.

Among the exhibits are the world's second-largest piece of amber and a 4-foot-tall (1.2 m) vase named The Abundance, as well as a collection of over 3,000 amber inclusions. One of the most famous organic inclusions is a small lizard.

The exposition is arranged on three floors in 28 show-rooms, with a total area of 1,000 square meters. It contains five sections:

  • Origin of amber, its properties
  • Historical and archaeological knowledge of amber
  • Amber in art of the 17th to 18th centuries
  • Kaliningrad Amber Factory
  • Amber in contemporary art

A part of the exhibition is dedicated the "Staatliche Bernstein-Manufaktur Koenigsberg" (amber factory Koenigsberg), a German company for extraction and treatment amber in Koenigsberg (now Kaliningrad) and Palmnicken (today Jantarny) until 1945.

In 2013 about 160,000 guests visited the museum. Every year 1,200 excursions are given and about 30 exhibitions are organized.

One of the most important Museum activities is organization and holding of the International Biennial of Amber Art Works «Alatyr» (an Old Russian name of amber) since 2004, since 2012 – the All-Russian Jewelry Art Exhibition.

The museum is very active in publishing. 26 books have been published between 2006 and 2014, mostly in Russian and English.

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Address: 1 marshal Vasilevsky square

Reviews

Ivan
A very interesting Museum. Especially hand-crafted artifacts. Photos can not convey impressions. I advise everyone to visit this Museum!
Nikita
I liked and will be remembered not so much the exposition in the Museum, as the views around it. Very picturesque place!
Be careful buying Souvenirs near the Museum. Under the guise of amber here can sell epoxy resin.
Aleksey
The most interesting - on the second floor.
Demonstrates how amber is formed, the process of extraction and processing of amber, nuggets, Champions, amber with insects inside frozen and much more.
Note stand with a fake amber can be beneficial. :)
On the ground floor there are shops with products from amber.
In the tourist season around the Museum active the amber trade.
After viewing the exhibits, go around the tower (Museum), view from the side, there are beautiful views.
Aleksandr
To know what amber is, how it is mined and processed, to see for himself the gem and the variety of products of different eras - all this can be the only amber Museum in Russia.
The Museum building is a former 19th century Fort, near the Upper pond - a place for walking.
T.I.
30 April were at the Museum and went to the jewelry shop. My husband wanted to do something nice for me and the granddaughters and daughter-in-law. Bought a lot, and me a bracelet and a ring with an infinity stone. Horror of horrors he slipped nonsense. And price stuff more than 15,000 rubles. On the website this workshop is not even close to such prices. And what we saw on the website, is much cheaper and cruder. This is a deception?? Do not buy and do not go to the workshop "Prussian honey!!! Have pity on your nerves and money!!
Ilya
1. The Museum is unique.
2. Visitors to the city love - a must visit!
3. Even without taking into account the amber architecture of the building itself is awesome.
Pavel
The excellent Museum. Many different samples of amber, its varieties, interesting jewelry.
Tells about its production, purification, polishing and jewelry making. About the work of the masters.
In other halls there are the geological collections of the fauna, the paintings and statuettes made of amber.
Griffin
Really cool museum. Kaliningrad and the oblast is very proud of its amber and this shows off some of the finest works.

The history of the buildings themselves is also quite interesting.
Kirill
A single Museum. Unfortunately, most of the exhibits, copies or replicas. Really Museum - half of the floor. The other two just commercial motevo for tourists and gullible middle-aged women. The building is fine, the rest is a disappointment. Particularly struck by "Ministers" of the Museum with the "janitor syndrome".
Tanya
An interesting Museum. It is better to go without small children. They quickly see and want out, and you will not be able to look closely.
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