Things to do in Kaliningrad Oblast, Northwestern District: The Best Art Museums

The museum is located in an old German house in the historical district of Kaliningrad. Here you will get acquainted with the history of amber and the art of jewelers, see the collection of inclusions, and also be able to purchase items at the manufacturer's price. The collection of the museum - a variety of samples representing the color palette of amber, rare forms and items from different eras.

The house-museum of German Brachert enjoys a picturesque location on the shore of the Baltic Sea, in the village of Otradnoye (former Georgenswalde) Svetlogorsk district. The Memorial Museum was opened in 1993 in a country house Brachert family, built by architect Hans Hoppe in 1931 and reconstructed in 1992.

The Kaliningrad Regional Museum of Fine Arts is one of the newest and dynamically developing museums of Russia. At the present time it is the only universal museum of national and foreign art, without which successful self-presenting of the Kaliningrad region in European and cultural context and travel industry is impossible. The museum is situated in the old building of The Konigsberg Stock Exchange (a sample of architecture of the 19th century) constructed upon the project of the significant German architect H. Muller in 1875. The museum’s collection includes the works of official and alternative art of the Russian artists of the 1950s-1990s, contemporary graphics of artists from Russia and the Baltic region, artworks of the Kaliningrad artists, glass art and studio pottery of Russia, created in the 1960s-1990s, Russian contemporary handicrafts, works of visual art of East Prussia. The museum offers exhibitions, tours, workshops, a lecture-hall fitted out with up-to-date multimedi