The Amber Trail

Museum of Wieluń Land
Located in a region with a rich history linked to the Warta Amber Trail, the Wieluń Land Museum presents exhibits showing the importance of amber in culture and trade.
Museum of the Land of Kalisz
Kalisia was the only one of the ancient Polish towns to be mentioned in Ptolemy's „Cosmography” dated to the 2nd century AD. The city was also an important centre on the Amber Route - numerous discoveries of Roman imports indicate this.
Malbork Castle Museum
The amber exhibition at Malbork Castle was opened in 1965. It presents objects made of amber: from prehistoric to contemporary creations, in particular 17th- and 18th-century magnificent caskets, altarpieces, cutlery, candlesticks, figural art and jewellery - masterpieces of amber art dating from its heyday.
Museum of Inclusion in Amber
„Life in the Forest of Amber” is a permanent educational exhibition dedicated to amber and inclusions, which have been the subject of research since 1998 in the laboratory of the Museum of Inclusions in Amber in the Department of Invertebrate Zoology and Parasitology at the Faculty of Biology, University of Gdańsk.
Museum of Amber in Kolobrzeg
The Amber Museum in Kolobrzeg offers not only traditional tours of the amber collection, but also engaging educational and hands-on experiences, making it a unique place on the map of tourist attractions.
The Amber Museum in Jarosławiec
The museum presents - in a way that is attractive to the public - narrative-scenographic exhibitions dedicated to amber: „The Amber Forest”, where you can learn how this fossilised resin was formed 40 million years ago.
Amber Museum (Gdansk Museum Branch)
More than 1,000 amber artefacts - from nuggets with inclusions from 40 million years ago, through an amber forest and an amber chamber, to contemporary artists' designs - are gathered in one of the world's largest amber collections at the Amber Museum in Gdansk.
Amber Chamber Museum
The exhibition presents the most interesting exhibits of amber lumps and inclusions. They come from the private collection of the owner, who has been building the collection for more than fifteen years. He decided to make his collected exhibits available to a wider audience and placed them in a newly built facility - a reconstruction of a Żuławy arcaded house in Stegna.
Archaeological Museum
One of the exhibitions, entitled „With amber through the millennia”, presents amber in nature and its role in culture. It is the first permanent exhibition of amber in Gdansk.
The Amber Bear at the National Museum in Szczecin
The amber bear is a Neolithic figurine discovered in 1887 near Słupsk during peat digging. It is estimated that it may be around 3,500 years old!
Amber polishing workshop
The Amber Trail must not miss the Baltic amber processing workshops, where amber enthusiasts not only learn the basic methods of amber processing, but can also make their own jewellery.
Amber respite workshop
Designed and led by Robert Pytlos, Amber Coordinator at the Gdansk City Hall. As part of the programme, participants make their own work from Baltic amber with replicas of archaic tools and visit the Amber Museum in Gdańsk.
Amber Miraculum
Amber workshops for children, young people, adults and seniors. During the classes, participants learn about the history and origin of Baltic amber and have the opportunity to create jewellery inspired by nature with their own hands.
Amber Fifth Avenue
Amber streets: Mariacka and Dlugie Pobrzeze with art galleries and shops selling amber jewellery.
Amber Altar in the Basilica of St Brigid
The most noteworthy thing to see in this church is the Amber Altarpiece. Ultimately, it is to be the largest work of amber in the world, much larger than the Amber Chamber. Currently, you can see the central part of the altar made of amber, the amber robe of the image of the Virgin Mary, as well as interesting elements of the supporting structure and accompanying sculptures.
World Championships of Amber Fishing in Jantar
For thousands of years, the main centre for extracting and processing amber has been the Vistula Spit region, where the village of Jantar in the municipality of Stegna and the towns and municipalities on the Gulf of Gdansk known as the Polish Amber Coast lie.
Niedźwiedziówka - the oldest archaeological site associated with amber
A village on the Gdańsk-Elbląg route is a Neolithic amber processing centre that functioned in the Vistula delta over 4,000 years ago. At the time, it was located at the mouth of one of its branches on a flooded sea shore; today it lies inland. Archaeological research has been carried out here since the 1970s, which has identified the site as...
Faktoria in Pruszcz Gdański
Faktoria in Pruszcz Gdański is a unique archaeological park that takes visitors back to the times of the Amber Trail, one of the most important trade routes of antiquity. Here you can see reconstructions of buildings from two thousand years ago, including the huts of craftsmen involved in amber processing.
Amber Mountain
Amber Mountain, an archaeological reserve with an area of over 5 hectares, comprises an excavated pit - a former open-pit amber mine. Pleistocene deposits transported by the glacial ice sheet were mined here.
The Hungarian Amber Trail
Ancient Scarbantia and Savaria, i.e. the present-day towns of Sopron and Szombathely in western Hungary, are, together with neighbouring Carnuntum, a must-see destination for anyone interested in amber and ancient history.
Bratislava on the Amber Trail
The Slovak capital is a city still looking for an idea to shine on the tourist map of Europe. Despite its undoubted attractiveness and illustrious history, Bratislava is still overshadowed by Prague, Vienna and Budapest. Amber, or to be more specific, a more intensive use of the Amber Route brand in the tourist promotion of the Slovak metropolis, could also help to change this image.