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.[1] The museum opened in 1979 and houses over 6,000 individual pieces.[2] The museum occupies part of a reconstructed Teutonic castle,[2] originally built by Karl Friedrich Emil zu Dohna-Schlobitten in the Napoleonic wars.[1]
Among the exhibits are the world's second-largest piece of amber[3] and a 4-foot-tall (1.2 m) vase named The Abundance,[2] as well as a collection of over 3,000 amber inclusions.[4]
Construction on the museum began in 1972.[5]