Amber Room, Amber-panelled chamber in Catherine Palace, Pushkin, Russia

The Amber Room is a chamber inside the Catherine Palace in Pushkin, Russia, whose walls are covered with carved amber panels, gold leaf, and mirrors. The geometric arrangement of the cladding alternates between warm honey-colored sections and reflective surfaces.

Andreas Schlüter designed the chamber in 1701 for the Berlin City Palace before Friedrich Wilhelm I presented it to Peter the Great in 1716. Empress Elizabeth later expanded it within the Catherine Palace and added more amber from Baltic coastal regions.

The room's name passed into Russian as Yantarnaya Komnata, and the 2003 reconstruction was funded partly by donations from Germany, including a German firm's contribution toward the amber panels. A silver miniature of the Berlin equestrian statue of Frederick the Great stood in the original room in the 19th century as a token of thanks to Prussia.

Access is possible only through guided palace tours that tend to fill quickly during summer months. Photography is not allowed inside, so visitors should take time to observe the details directly.

The original panels left Tsarskoye Selo on 14 October 1941, packed into 28 crates and shipped to Königsberg, where parts were shown in the castle's south wing that November. Museum director Alfred Rohde gave contradictory accounts of its fate before dying in late 1945.