The Palanga Amber Museum, near the Baltic Sea in Palanga, Lithuania, is a branch of the Lithuanian Art Museum. It is housed in the restored 19th-century Tiškevičiai Palace and is surrounded by the Palanga Botanical Garden. The museum's collection of amber comprises about 28,000 pieces, of which about 15,000 contain inclusions of insects, spiders, or plants. About 4,500 pieces of amber are exhibited; many of these are items of artwork and jewelry.
The Tiškevičiai Palace houses the museum
One of the largest amber pieces in Europe, the Amber Sun or Sun Stone, exhibited in the museum
The Birutė Hill in spring, presumable burial place of Grand Duchess Birutė
Palanga is a resort city in western Lithuania, on the shore of the Baltic Sea.
Image: Palanga by Augustas Didzgalvis
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Image: Palanga Beach