Lecture about amber in the castle-like “Hof zu Wil”

Last week I had the opportunity to give a lecture about amber in the beautiful, roughly 800-year-old castle-like “Hof zu Wil”. After the lecture the participants of the wine-club “Vinum et Vagantes” experienced the nearly 50 exhibits of my private amber collection.

Many special raw amber pieces from different countries and with a large colour spectrum (yellow, brown, red, dark-blue, black as well as white) were shown. A number of amber replicas of museum objects from the Neolithic Age, Bronze Age, Celtic Age, Viking Age, Middle Ages to Modern Times were also part of the exhibition.

?The lecture was structured as follows;

?I. How amber was formed

II. Properties of amber

III. Amber is found on almost all continents

V. Amber as a trade and cultural asset

Some resin and amber exhibits

Further exhibits?

Further information about amber can be found in the Virtual Amber Museum (www.bernsteinmuseum.ch).

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