German Amber Museum
 Place of collection: Poor Clare Monastery Ribnitz |
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| place | Im Kloster 1–2, 18311 Ribnitz-Damgarten 
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| opening | 1954/1975 |
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Museum Association German Amber Museum Ribnitz-Damgarten eV
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| ISIL | DE-MUS-836611 |
The German Amber Museum is a museum dealing with amber in Ribnitz-Damgarten in the German state Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . It is located in the Ribnitz Clare Monastery .
history
Today's German Amber Museum has its origins in the local history museum founded in 1954 by the Ribnitz teacher Richard Suhr from the remains of a home collection compiled in 1933 in a building of the former Poor Clare monastery in Ribnitz. In 1963 an "amber room" was set up, which was dedicated to the creation, extraction and processing of amber. The long tradition of amber processing, founded by the Ribnitz goldsmith Walter Kramer with the creation of "Fischlandschmuck" in the early 1930s, and the socialist continuation of the expropriated company in the Ribnitz company VEB Ostsee-Schmuck played an important role here .
In 1974 a collection from Usedom was acquired and since 1975 the museum has been called the Amber Museum . A major redesign took place by 1987 and the themes of the exhibition were expanded to include amber art and general culture related to amber. Loans from other museums also expanded the collection. Since 1995 there has also been a collection of city history in the museum's premises.
According to its own information, the German Amber Museum has the most important amber collection in Germany. Special features of the collection are rare items such as insects and even a lizard .
Since 2000, the museum has had the honorary name “ German Amber Museum” given by the Museum Association in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern eV . The museum has been run by an association since 2002 and the renovations were provisionally completed in 2006. The renovation of the Amber Museum was completed in December 2007. Since May 2010 the second large exhibition part of the museum, the exhibition on the history of the monastery and monastery "Lady of the world, but also nun" has been completed.
Web links
- Literature about the German Amber Museum in the State Bibliography MV
- German Amber Museum
- Ribnitz Monastery