The Amber Museum offers postcards that make a lovely gift or keepsake of your visit to our museum. Amber jewellery by Dorota Cenecka, Tomasz Kargul and Jacek Baron, sculptures decorated with amber by Jacek Sumeradzki and Mariusz Drapikowski, and objects by Harald and Eryk Popkiewicz are just some of the exhibits from the Krakow Amber Museum and products offered in…
We invite you to explore our range. To meet our visitors’ expectations we have prepared the following amber products: natural amber soap, natural soap with mud and amber, bath salt with mud and amber, a softening mask-cream with mud and amber, face cream with amber extract, hand cream with mud and amber, cream for…
Today we all remember Paweł Adamowicz, the murdered mayor of Gdańsk, and how much he did for his beloved city during more than 20 years as mayor. Among so many achievements it is easy to overlook that it was during his time in office that Gdańsk became the World Capital of Amber. “Gdańsk is the most wonderful city in the world” – one of the last sentences he spoke on stage…
The second, revised edition of the book by Prof. Barbara Kosmowska-Ceranowicz is available at the Amber Museum. “Bursztyn w Polsce i na świecie” (Amber in Poland and around the world) by Prof. Barbara Kosmowska-Ceranowicz is a Polish-English publication presenting the beauty, history and properties of amber. It is written in a simple, accessible way. With its wealth of information, the book can serve as a textbook for students and researchers…
“There should definitely be more meetings like this, where you can learn more about amber” – participants agreed after the workshop How not to buy a pig in a poke: recognising amber fakes, held on 24 January at the Amber Museum in Krakow. With this workshop the Amber Museum launched its educational programme for 2014. “This first meeting…
At its last meeting, the Board of the International Amber Association changed its recommendation rules. The change prevents recommended companies from using shaped amber (formed at high temperature from a single nugget previously cut to the intended size) and takes effect with new or renewed certificates. Until now the rules only excluded pressed amber, substitutes, succinite fakes and subfossil resins (copals).…
Friday 13 September went down in Krakow’s history in letters of amber. Distinguished guests – amber lovers from all over Poland – came to the opening of the Amber Museum to celebrate this unusual event together. The opening was graced by a show of three exceptional fashion collections combined with amber jewellery by the following design duos: Danuta Burczik-Kruczkowska & Joanna Weyna and Danka Czapnik…
Amber is a unique stone. What does that mean? With us you will discover the fascinating world of amber and the people who make it even more beautiful. But be warned: amber leaves no one indifferent! Warm to the touch, full of light and history – Baltic amber has enchanted people all over the world for centuries. Its golden glow holds the secret of ancient forests in which…
“I had long wanted to create a place in Krakow where amber would be presented in an attractive yet many-sided way. Until now we focused mainly on the aesthetic qualities of contemporary pieces made from this stone; at the Amber Museum we have combined them with education,” explains its founder, Tomasz Mikołajczyk. There are many ventures of this kind around the world,…
This is the 6th edition of the Ambermart Gallery competition, organised by the amber portal amber.com.pl together with Gdańsk International Fair Co. We are waiting for photos of work by Ambermart exhibitors and for votes from all internet users. The aim of our competition remains to promote amber jewellery, to give makers a chance to present new work before the Ambermart fair opens, and to gauge the market and buyers’ preferences in advance. Taking part in…
The Trend Book sets out to reveal the avant-garde nature of Baltic amber, presenting unique jewellery by Polish designers in the context of style trends in original design and the design arts. Trend Book 2013+ is a review of the best design and art projects from around the world together with collections of unique jewellery designed by students of the Academies of Fine Arts in Gdańsk and Łódź. They interpret the trends identified by…
Twenty leading European jewellery designers were invited to take part in this unique exhibition, most of whom had never worked with amber before. The result exceeded expectations. The exhibition, really an interesting experiment, featured: Sławomir Fijałkowski, Christiane Förster, Karl Fritsch, Sophie Hanagarth, Herman Hermsen, Daniel Kruger, Stefano Marchetti, Pavel Opočensky,…