Palanga Amber Museum

The Palanga Amber Museum ( lit. Palangos Gintaro muziejus ) is located in Palanga on the Lithuanian Baltic Sea coast.

The museum is housed in the 1897, for the Count Feliks Tyszkiewicz from Berlin resident German architect Franz Schwechten designed and built the castle. The castle is surrounded by a the same time designed by Frenchman Édouard François André and his son Park, now the Botanical Garden of Palanga. In a Castle Amber Museum was established on 3 August 1963 by the Lithuanian Ministry of Culture. It provides information on the formation, the mining and processing of amber and shows practical applications and different variants. The museum has a large number of exhibits with inclusions as well as samples of fossilized tree resin from around the world. An exhibit is about 3.5 kg Sunstone ( Saulės akmuo ) from Baltic amber. With more than 14,000 copies, the museum has one of the largest Inklusensammlungen the world.

In addition to the permanent exhibits in the museum are often associated with changing exhibitions and concerts. In the first decade, there were 1,562,027 visitors.

Gallery

Summer terrace ( the Museum of the other side)

Amber with inclusions

Necklaces