palanga amber museum

You feel like stepping into Lithuanian royalty history when you enter the Tiskevicius mansion. The displays are interesting and kids will definitely enjoy seeing different insects stuck in million year-old amber.

If you are visiting Palanga it's main place to go, of course if you are looking for some real facts and history of Palanga and Lithuania. In this museum I were already 4 times with random visiting groups, and I can still recommend this place.

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 scenery and layout is just superb. Historical and scientific at the same time. The birds are friendly. The shop is great.

Place is quite good but small and if you have isic card its cheapper. They have beautiful garden wiev as well.

In the middle of the beautiful and well maintained Palanga Botanical Park you’ll find the Amber Museum in a castle like building. When I visited the exhibition it was moved into the basement because of restorations of the upper building, but it was still impressive with informative texts and magnifying glasses for to study the amber inclusions. It says that this amber collection is one of the best in the world. This museum is really worth a visit.

Lithuania was a very different experience: a country with a unique language (close to Sanscrit in origin), a history of occupation by larger neighbours and independent only since 1990. We landed at Klaipeda, and the rainy weather broke just as we were leaving the ship. We took a bus trip to Palanga - a seaside resort, home to a huge botanical park with a 19th-century, neo-Renaissance mansion that houses a huge amber museum. The walk through the park was striking - more a 21st century design than a 19th century one: very few formal garden spaces, one large, meandering pond with a small island, walking bridges, ducks and a pair of swans. The many curving, easily walkable, trails wandered through a natural pine and mixed hardwood forest. After @ a 45+ minute walk through the woods, we came upon a straight, broad, paved carriage path crossing and a sand mound with a wooden walkway going up it. Only when we neared the top of the mound did we see the sea - wind driven, roiling waves, and sand beach as far as you can see. I kept thinking, our landscape architect friend would love this place. The amber museum was quite extensive, and the talk on amber interesting, but nothing to match the park. When we returned to the old town of Klaipedia, we were ready to return to our ship, rest and look at our pictures.

Palanga is the most beatufil Lithuanian holiday city. And Amber musiem is the most visited Palanga place.

I have to confess a bias before proceeding - I'm a mineral collector so a visit to Lithuania without a visit to an amber museum would be unthinkable. Although the display area is not large it is educational, and I came away with a better understanding of (and appreciation of) amber. My biggest criticism is that they did not have books on amber for sale in the gift shop, which was disappointing considering the museum theme. The surrounding park and gardens are very pleasant for just wandering about. I wouldn't go to Palanga just to see this museum but it's worth a visit if you are already there.

It's a small museum with amber exposition. If you want to know where do we have amber from and to see some nice pieces of amber or jewellery, you can go there. It will take not more than an hour. But park around is great for long walks.

Dear tourists! We visited that museum some years ago. Park is nice, but museum is so big disepointence! Castl is renovated, but all exposition is on basic floor - one room with amber with insects, another room shows jewerly, on the end you can see 3rd room-shop, where they sell FAKE amber and sellers lie and say thats reall one. Its a bigest disepointence around the world, that un museum they do not tell and do not sell reall things. Sad, angry and tired from lies :((don' t go there, we all were tired after so long walk and then fron nothing interesting to see. when we wanted to know the weigth of bigest peace, museum worker sed, that she does not know, but we can look for smaller one, there is info about the weight.just dont go there, kids will feel boring.

I liked it, and visited it for the third time. It is established in a former manor, it also has a very beautiful and huge park around it. so you can visit two object in one time. Recommend for everyone that is staying in Palanga.

We arrived in Klaipeda by ship and took a tour of Palanga. The botanical gardens surrounding the Amber Museum were beautiful with scuptures and a lake. As our group approached the home housing the Amber Museum we were addressed by an actor pretending to be the son of the family owning the home. He told us about the history of the home and the museum. Inside, an actress, playing his mother, discussed amber and its uses. The museum was lovely and very descriptive. There were magnifying glasses installed to see the insects and other materials trapped in the amber. The museum shop was great and the prices seemed to be the best we found on the Baltics. If you like amber and don't want the hype of shops, this is the place to go.

We were looking for something to do while in the area and since the Baltic region is known for Amber we decided to visit this museum. If you are not an amber fan,( I am not a fan) skip this museum. There is only so much they can do with amber to make it interesting. The grounds are very pretty but unless you are in the area (Palanga/Klapedia are places we would never return) this it not worth a trip.

I only did 3 dots because it was so small. About 20 minutes and we were in our way to the beach. The first room had the bugs in Amber and nice displays with sliding magnifying glasses. Jewelry and old pieces. Small gift shop. It was 25 lt for my family (4 kids and 2 adults). So not bad if you have 30 minutes to kill. Our GPS tried to have us drive in the park. Park on the road and walk in. Or you will get some strange looks.....just kidding, we didn't really drive in.