Amber Museum in Jarosławiec

The Amber Museum in Jarosławiec is a private museum on Nadmorska Street, opened in 2014. It shows how Baltic amber was formed, what inclusions are and what deposits look like in Poland and around the world. The museum's website promises a story of amber told with the help of scenery and modern effects.

Three permanent exhibitions

The museum has three permanent exhibitions. The first is a reconstruction of an amber forest and the story of how Baltic amber was formed. The second is a reconstruction of an underground amber mine. The third, the inclusions room, shows organisms trapped in resin. The museum's website also shows the exhibition “Amber in Art”, and according to the Wikipedia entry temporary exhibitions are organised on craft, amber processing and amber gatherers.

Exhibits

The collection includes the second largest piece of amber in Poland, weighing 2906 grams, and other pieces exceeding a kilogram. There are also rare, well preserved inclusions, among them a grasshopper, a pine cone and an oak inflorescence, a piece of blue Baltic amber, and the complete documentation of the deposit at Możdżanowo. The museum also runs an online knowledge base on amber.

Practical information

• Address: ul. Nadmorska 1b, 76-107 Jarosławiec.
• Opening hours and tickets are on the museum's website; check them before your visit, because they may change during the year. The website states that tickets are bought at the museum's ticket office.
• A few hundred metres away stands the lighthouse in Jarosławiec.
• There is also a fishing harbour nearby.