The Kaliningrad Amber Museum is a museum

Museum

A museum is an institution that cares for a collection of artifacts and other objects of scientific, artistic, cultural, or historical importance and makes them available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temporary. Most large museums are located in major cities...

 located in the Russia

Russia

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n city of Kaliningrad

Kaliningrad

Kaliningrad is a seaport and the administrative center of Kaliningrad Oblast, the Russian exclave between Poland and Lithuania on the Baltic Sea...

 devoted to housing and displaying amber

Amber

Amber is fossilized tree resin , which has been appreciated for its color and natural beauty since Neolithic times. Amber is used as an ingredient in perfumes, as a healing agent in folk medicine, and as jewelry. There are five classes of amber, defined on the basis of their chemical constituents...

 artworks. It is located in the city center, on the shore of Lake Verkhneye.
The museum opened in 1979 and houses over 6,000 individual pieces. The museum occupies part of a reconstructed Teutonic

Teutonic

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 castle

Castle

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, originally built by Karl Friedrich Emil zu Dohna-Schlobitten

Karl Friedrich Emil zu Dohna-Schlobitten

Karl Friedrich Emil zu Dohna-Schlobitten was a Prussian fieldmarshal.- Biography :Dohna-Schlobitten was born at his family's estate of Schlobitten to Friedrich Alexander zu Dohna-Schlobitten and Caroline née Finck von Finckenstein .In 1798 Dohna joined the Prussian Army, where he met Gerhard von...

 in the Napoleonic wars

Napoleonic Wars

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Among the exhibits are the world's second-largest piece of amber and a 4 feet (1.2 m) vase named The Abundance, as well as a collection of over 3,000 amber inclusions.

Construction on the museum began in 1972.