Презентация "Музей Янтаря в Калининграде"

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KALININGRAD REGIONAL AMBER MUSEUM

Prepared by the student of group 8TE

Elena Bezhalova

26.10.2021

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CONTENTS

Kaliningrad Regional Amber Museum - 3-4

History - 5

Galleries - 6

Visitors - 7

Elena Bezhalova 8TE

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KALININGRAD REGIONAL AMBER MUSEUM

The Kaliningrad Regional 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. Construction on the museum began in 1972.

The museum opened in 1979 and houses about 14,000 individual pieces. The museum occupies part of a reconstructed fortification,[4] originally built by Karl Friedrich Emil zu Dohna-Schlobitten in the Napoleonic wars.

Elena Bezhalova 8TE

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KALININGRAD REGIONAL AMBER MUSEUM

Among the exhibits are the world's second-largest piece of amber and a 4-foot-tall (1.2 m) vase named The Abundance, as well as a collection of over 3,000 amber inclusions. One of the most famous organic inclusions is a small lizard.

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HISTORY

The amber museum was established in Kaliningrad because near the town of Yantarnoye there is the largest (out of the discovered) deposit of the Baltic gem - more than 90% of the world's reserves.

For ten years since 1969 the process of restoration of the historical and architectural complex was under way. The first stage of the Amber Museum was opened on December 29, 1979, as a branch of the Kaliningrad Regional Historical and Art Museum.

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GALLERIES

The exposition is arranged on three floors in 28 show-rooms, with a total area of 1,000 square meters. It contains five sections:

• Origin of amber, its properties
• Historical and archaeological knowledge of amber
• Amber in art of the 17th to 18th centuries
• Kaliningrad Amber Factory
• Amber in contemporary art.

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VISITORS

Revenues from the main activities of the museum in 2005 amounted to 2.8 million rubles, in 2008 - 7.5 million rubles. The number of excursions in 2003 - 292, in 2008 - more than 1000. The number of exhibitions in 2008 - more than 20 per year. In total for the period of 2004-2008 about 100 exhibitions were held, the collection of the museum was replenished with 10 000 items of storage, including antiquarian objects, works of foreign artists and unique inclusions.

In 2013 about 160,000 guests visited the museum. Every year 1,200 excursions are given and about 30 exhibitions are organized.

Elena Bezhalova 8TE

Thank you for the attention!

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