Palanga Amber Museum

Castle of Count Feliks Tyszkiewicz in winter

The museum in summer: there are also ponds in the park

The amber museum Palanga ( Lithuanian Palangos gintaro muziejus ) is located in Palanga on the Lithuanian Baltic coast.

The museum is housed in the palace designed and built in 1897 for Count Feliks Tyszkiewicz by the German architect Franz Schwechten, who lives in Berlin . The palace is surrounded by a park designed by the French Édouard François André and his son at the same time , which is now the Palanga Botanical Garden. On August 3, 1963, the Lithuanian Ministry of Culture established an amber museum in the castle. It provides information about the formation, mining and processing of amber and shows practical applications and different variants. The museum has a large number of exhibits with inclusions and samples of petrified tree resins from all over the world. One exhibit is the approximately 3.5 kg sunstone ( Saulės akmuo ) made from Baltic amber. With more than 14,000 copies, the museum has one of the largest inclusive collections in the world.

In addition to the permanent exhibitions, changing special exhibitions and concerts are often held in the museum . In the first ten years there were 1,562,027 visitors.