Kaliningrad Regional Amber Museum
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The Kaliningrad Regional 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.[2] Construction on the museum began in 1972.[3]
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Established | 1979 |
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Location | Kaliningrad, Russia |
Visitors | 141,500 (2011)[1] |
Director | Tatyana Suvorova |
Website | www |
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The museum opened in 1979[4] and houses about 14,000 individual pieces. The museum occupies part of a reconstructed fortification,[4] originally built by Karl Friedrich Emil zu Dohna-Schlobitten in the Napoleonic wars.[2]
Among the exhibits are the world's second-largest piece of amber[5] and a 4-foot-tall (1.2 m) vase named The Abundance,[4] as well as a collection of over 3,000 amber inclusions.[6] One of the most famous organic inclusions is a small lizard.