PALANGA AMBER MUSEUM Palanga Amber Museum is a division of the Lithuanian Art Museum in Palanga, displaying amber, its products and providing information on these topics. Located in the former Palanga estate. The museum is in the palace of the Count Feliksas Tiskevicius. They were built in 1897 according to the project of the German architect Franco Schwechten in the Palanga Birutė Forest, near the Baltic Sea, held by the local population. Palanga botanical park surrounded by the palace, which was started to form during the construction of the palace, in the 19th century. at the end The author of the park project is the French landscape architect Eduard Francois André. The museum holds over 28,000 amber exhibits, of which about 15,000 have inlays (have intrinsically stuck lives) [1] Exhibited about 4 500 amber articles, most of which are various articles or jewelry. HISTORY Amber was interested, it was collected by Palanga graph Feliksas Tiškevičius. Inclusions in the collection of collectors who have accumulated rare and valuable collections of amber, in the 20th century. In the first half of Lithuania there were quite a few, but nobody until the 20th century. In the early 1960s, they failed to gather these values ​​into one place where they could be shown to the public and explored by scholars. The Palanga Amber Museum was founded in 1963. August 3 On behalf of the Ministry of Culture of the Lithuanian SSR. Exposition The museum's exposition covers 15 rooms with exhibits. The temporary exposition is stored in the chapel near the museum. The exposition gives a detailed account of the history of the formation of amber, the spread of amber in the world, morphology (external and internal structure). Here are examples of fossil salts found elsewhere in the world. A unique collection of inclusions is displayed. It is also spoken about the 19th-20th centuries. amber articles, interwar Lithuanian amber processing workshops and masters. Also, in the Amber Museum, the reconstruction of the lost stone age amber pieces is restored according to the drawings. Exhibits, Exposure Visits Prices Adults - € 3 Discounted price - 1.50 € The first thematic plan of the Amber Museum exhibitions was prepared by Pranas Gudynas. The author of the later exposition - the expanded museum - was the painter Romualdas Budrys. He was assisted by Julius Masalskis, Stasys Pinkus, Juozas Petrulis, Antanas Tranyzas, Vladas Katinas, Viktoras Vizgirdas, Vytautas Gudelis and many other people. The first exhibit featured 478 exhibits. The exposition area was 96 m² and it occupied only a part of the total area of ​​the Tiskevichi Palace. 1965 Exposure area was increased to 150 m². 1982 In the Amber Museum the republican crafts exhibition was opened, which was held in 4 months. visited a quarter of a million people. In the same year, on October 5, a republican scientific conference was held at the Amber Museum, in which the topics of amber processing and its use were analyzed..