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Copenhagen Amber Museum

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One of the main attractions of the museum is the collection of more than 100 pieces of amber with inclusions of insects and plants. Magnifying glasses enable the visitor to observe the more than 30 million year-old insects and plants closely. Copenhagen Amber Museum also presents its visitors to the
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Denmark’s biggest amber find in modern times can be found in the Copenhagen Amber Museum. In June 2010, a Danish fisherman caught one of Denmark’s largest pieces of amber ever found. He caught the piece in his net on a fishing trip far out to sea. He found it hard to believe his own eyes when he
58:. The museum holds an extensive collection of amber antiques and artifacts, including a wide array of entombed insects from prehistoric times. The collection comprises one of the largest piece of amber in the world. 84:) one of Copenhagen’s oldest houses. It is placed at the square Kongens Nytorv right at the entrance of Nyhavn. Kanneworffs House was built in 1606, even before Kongens Nytorv was founded and the channel of 121:
pulled in his net that June morning, for in the net lay the biggest piece of amber he had ever found. The amber rock weighed 4,125 gr., and was the largest piece of amber found in Denmark since 1767.
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was dug. Its current appearance is largely due to an adaptation in the 1780s which added an extra floor and the
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Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation
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world's largest piece of amber, which weighs 47.5 kg.
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Kongens Nytorv
Danish
Kongens Nytorv
Copenhagen
Denmark
House of Amber

Kanneworff House
Nyhavn
Mansard roof
Bredgade
Store Strandstræde
Copenhagen Amber Museum interior
"Copenhagen Amber Museum"
"House of Amber"
"Kanneworffs House"
"Kongens Nytorv 2"
the original
"Kanneworffs Hus"
Københavns Ravmuseum website
House of Amber website
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Museums
Metropolitan Copenhagen
Arken
Cisternerne
National Gallery of Denmark

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