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Amber Gallery-Museum Pamario st 20, Nida

The museum founded in 1993 in an old fisherman's house welcomes the visitors with wooden amulets from Juodkrantė's Treasure. They are like museum‘s guards. Visitors are acquainted with Juodkrantė's Treasure and meaning of amulets in the museum, where they can see all the 434 original-sized amulets.

History of the Baltic amber is present: the formation, morphology, colour, and inclusions. Amber of different sizes and shapes astonishes tourists. The biggest amber piece weighs nearly 2 kilograms. Visitors may touch it and be filled with 50 million years amber energy and feel its warmth. The museum shows an impressive collection of inclusions. Here you can find various insects and plants in amber. We also have an amber piece with a bird feather and a spider "Sosybius Mizgirisi". The latter piece of amber received this name when the researcher J. Wunderlich, who works at the Hamburg University of Geology-Paleontology Museum, found in the gallery collection an undiscovered Baltic amber spider species, of male sex. Thus he called the spider in the name of the owner, so making him "immortal". Juodkrantė's Treasure is exhibited in the center of the museum. Here is also exhibited a collection of amber, fossil resin and copal from the worldwide locations. You can also see the unique phenomenon - how works the machine producing amber energy. Visitors can taste a special drink – "Amber drink" and learn how to make the drink at home themselves.

In addition to the antique amber – the most prominent-Lithuanian artists exposition is displayed. You can buy jewelry and art works of amber. All items have certificates, guaranteeing that the product is made of natural Baltic amber. .

Museum visitors can also visit exposition in the garden and walk through the Amber Road. The Amber Road starts from the Baltic Sea and extends over the whole Europe to the Etruscan lands in Italy. Here you can find an old workshop and learn to work with amber (who wants can try to become an amber "master" and make themselves a fortune amulet). Visitors can see a collection of inclusions, amulets from Juodkrantė Treasure, and then open a "50 million year-old pine bole" to understand how amber was formed inside. They can see how resin was piling up in the tree; dripping from damaged spots or dribbling down the tree bark. A boat previously used to fish amber and some ancient tools are part of the exhibition. The beginning of the Amber Road is marked with an obelisk placed in Curonian Lagoon. .

In summer time artists come to the Artists‘ House, which is near the Amber Gallery-Museum. These are the moments to observe creative processes and visit the exhibitions.


EDUCATIVE WORK

In the Royal workshop located by the Amber Gallery-Museum amber processing lessons are organized. Any groups and individual people can participate in the lessons. Lessons can be in Lithuanian, English, German and Russian languages. During the lessons ancient and modern amber processing tools are introduced, secrets of amber fishing are revealed, a brief history of Baltic amber is presented as well. Visitors learn how to process amber and get to know more about ancient amber processing tools: a flint drill and a wooden machine. It is demonstrated how these tools were used by our ancestors. Visitors can also see modern amber processing tools: grinding and polishing machines. They can try to process amber themselves. Visitors can choose a piece of raw amber and make it into an amulet, that will protect from bad luck, or into a beautiful talisman, which carried in the pocket gives strength.

For further information about time and duration of the lessons and a number of participants please call (+370 469) 52573 or email info@ambergallery.lt

Amber Gallery Skruzdynė st 17, Nida

Cozy Gallery is founded near the house of Thomas Mann. Linen and amber can be purchased here. Helpful employees could tell a story of Baltic amber, and will answer visitors' questions.

Visitors of the gallery can see Lithuanian artists‘ works of contemporary or classical design, pieces of natural amber, amber with inclusions. People, who don’t like to prink up, can choose an amulet that would protect them from bad energy, or a piece of amber, which, if carried in the pocket, would provide them strength.

There is also flax being grown near the gallery and a complex process of flax conversion into linen can be watched.

The gallery has a big collection of weather vanes. A weather vane is like a fisherman's identity-card. From the weather vane you could learn about ship kurėnas’s owner, about his family and social position. In 1844 a weather vane was put into service as a ship's identification mark. The government could control fishermen so that they would fish in the right territory. These and other fascinating facts visitors can learn by listening to the story of the weather vanes. They have also an opportunity to buy weather vanes, which became a souvenir in the Curonian Spit.


Amber Gallery "Kurėnas" Naglių st 18c, Nida

The Gallery was founded in an improvised old fisherman’s ship kurėnas. Both an old ship and a modern gallery are the contrast to amber, which saves secrets for centuries, and modern artists’ standpoint to it. Everyone, who visits the gallery, can hear the story of amber origin or admire atypical articles of amber. Gallery’s aim is to break traditional stereotypes of amber and bring it to contemporary human life style and rhythm. Here you can see articles created for people who like extravagant and original amber jewellery. Most of them are single pieces, uniqueworks. Lithuanian and foreign authors' works such as jewellery and small plastic, which were exhibited in various exhibitions, could be found here. These artists treat an adornment as an object of luxury and representation, but each of them interprets it individually and differently. In some jewellery amber is only a part of the specific design, in the other pieces the same amber is like a unique piece of art. Particular amber properties are highlighted in this kind of jewellery. Amber is combined with precious stones, precious metals, with different minerals, crystals and natural substances, such as horsehair, seaweed or fur. All goods have certificates, guaranteeing that the product is made of natural Baltic amber.


Amber Museum-Gallery Šv. Mykolo st 8, Vilnius

Amber Museum-Gallery is established in a baroque style house of the 17th century. The baroque building kept remnants of renaissance and classicism architecture, elements of Gothic.

Everyone, who is eager to find out about 50 million years old Baltic amber, is welcome to hear about history of amber origin, differences in form, size and colour. You will see the biggest amber piece of this museum that weighs 3 kilograms. Also, you will be very surprised that amber can be white and black, green and red, varicoloured and even blue! A unique collection of inclusions will catch your eye: a shell in amber, a mosquito with sucked blood, a leg of a grasshopper. You will have an opportunity to view a reconstructed Treasure of Juodkrantė. It is the biggest archeological amber collection in the world collected during the period of 1860-1881 when digging amber beside Juodkrantė in Curonian Spit. The collection consists of raw amber and 434 amber artefacts of various shapes. All these items are described by Richard Klebs in the book “Amber jewellery of Stone Age” (1882).

What is more, the museum cellar keeps a valuable archaeological finding: kilns dating back to the end of the 15th and the beginning of the 16th century and best preserved throughout the Eastern Europe. Restored dishes and tiles baked in these kilns are exhibited here. Amidst the kilns there is a fragment of stone pavement walked on by townspeople 500 year ago. Archeologist Gediminas Gendrėnas the way down from the upper gallery hall to the cellar transformed into a fantastic journey to the depths of centuries. As it happens, when you go down the stairs (about 70 сm) you get from the XXI century to surrounding of the XVII century. Going down three meters more, to the cellar, you find cultural layer of the XIV-XV centuries: the land walked on by the first citizens of this city.

In Amber gallery you will have an opportunity to see the exposition of modern artists’ jewellery, and you will be able to buy amber articles made by famous jewellers. Every purchased item is provided with a certificate witnessing high quality, real Baltic amber item.


Art Center of Baltic Amber Šv. Mykolo st 12, Vilnius

In the museum of Art Center of Baltic Amber you see an amber road, which is presented in an original and artistic way: drops of amber rolling down the pine; enormous creatures which walked in amber trees forest; natural amber pieces caught by Lithuanian amber fishermen in the stormy Baltic Sea; variety of amber colors and shapes.

Inclusions create special value: like through the ship porthole you view the world of flora and fauna that existed 50 million years ago and got conserved safely in amber. The most valuable exhibit is a lizard in the amber piece. There are only few such inclusions in the world.

Very important object in the museum is sanctum of the pagans. It tells us about ritual places of pagans and the rites. Amber was very important part of these rituals. It is believed that amber could pacify raging gods, make dreams and expectations come true. Even nowadays in a pagan sanctum you may throw a pinch of fragrant amber dust, to pacify yourself and the gods by prayer.

Art Center of Baltic Amber is a member of Fine Crafts Association in Vilnius. A modern studio allows observing one of the oldest crafts: processing of amber, archaic processing tools, even opportunities to make own amber amulet, which according to our ancestors, beautifies and guards us. One of the objects of Art Center of Baltic Amber is to show processing of amber. We organise amber processing lessons for students and visitors from different towns of Lithuania and the entire world for many years.

Cultural layers of Vilnius dating back to 15th century, various archeological findings, autentic ceiling paintings can be seen.

Anybody willing to get acquainted with amber closer may have a unique chance to touch a natural amber piece, to smell it, to taste a specific amber drink made in traditional way, to walk barefoot on small amber pieces and feel particularly powerful energy, which is produced by unique amber machine. Here you receive hints on how to tell real amber from artificial.

In Art Center of Baltic Amber visitors may see expositions of Lithuanian and foreign artists works, buy certified amber jewellery. Lectures, seminars about amber, pagans, balts’ culture and Lithuanian history are regularly read here.


EDUCATIVE WORK

Craft lessons

One of the object of Art Center of Baltic Amber is to show processing of amber. We orgnanise amber processing lessons for children and adults. Excursion and amber proccesing lessons can be led in Lithuanian, English, German, Russian languages. Profesional artist Raimundas Padleckas (Professional jeweller, member of Lithuanian artist association) shows amber processing. For further information please call: (85) 212 04 99, email: bgmc@ambergallery.lt

Lectures, seminars

In Art Center of Baltic Amber lectures, seminars about amber, pagans, balts culture are read by well know Lithuanian scientists and professors. 

Contacts 

Amber Gallery
	Skruzdynės st 17a, Nida Phone: 8-469 52052 E-mail: info@ambergallery.lt Opening hours: 05-10 I-VII 9.00-19.00

Amber Gallery "Kurėnas"
	Naglių st 18c, Nida Phone: 8-469 52998 E-mail: info@ambergallery.lt Opening hours: 06-08 I-VII 10.00-22.00

Amber Museum-Gallery
	Šv. Mykolo st 8, LT-2001 Vilnius Phone/Fax: 8-5 2623092 E-mail: info@ambergallery.lt Opening hours: I-VII 10.00-19.00

Art Center of Baltic Amber
	Šv. Mykolo st 12, LT-2001 Vilnius Phone/Fax: 8-5 2120499 E-mail: info@ambergallery.lt Opening hours: I-VII 09.00-18.00