Deutsches Bernsteinmuseum, Amber museum in Ribnitz-Damgarten, Germany.
The Deutsches Bernsteinmuseum is an amber museum in Ribnitz-Damgarten featuring approximately 1,600 exhibits covering the natural and cultural history of Baltic amber. The collection spans about 1,000 square meters of exhibition space with objects ranging from raw materials to finished artworks.
The museum was founded in 1954 and is housed in a former Clarissan convent building dating to the 13th century. The historic structure itself provides the setting for the collection and connects medieval architecture with contemporary museum presentation.
The collection displays amber artworks from the 16th and 17th centuries alongside contemporary pieces and natural specimens with preserved inclusions. Visitors can observe how craftspeople have transformed this raw material into jewelry and ornaments across generations.
The museum occupies the former Clarissan convent in Ribnitz; the second permanent section on the convent and foundation history, titled "Dame von Welt, aber auch Nonne", opened in May 2010 and is reached within the same building. Renovation work was completed in December 2007, so the exhibition rooms are barrier-free in the rebuilt parts. Allow time for both the amber collection and the town-history collection, which has been shown here again since 1995.
The collection includes rare inclusions such as insects and even a gecko. Many exhibits come from the Preussag/TUI collection, which originated in the amber collection of the State Amber Manufactory in Königsberg; it was shown in Turkey at the end of the Second World War and thus survived intact.
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