Gdańsk In Your Pocket - St. Mary's Church

http://www.inyourpocket.com 16.02.2008 Located inside Gdańsk's medieval Torture Tower this fine, multi-floor exhibition with additional multimedia displays features everything amber-related from large raw lumps of the stuff to some stunningly ornate artistic creations. Highlights include plants and insects trapped inside pieces, the world's largest display of natural amber blocks, a small section devoted to amber's former medicinal uses and an amazing amber Fender Stratocaster. The final rooms of the tour take in the attached Torture Museum, a nod to the original purpose of the building in which the museum is housed. Included as part of the city's Amber Museum which is housed inside the same building, the Torture Museum offers both a recreation of the living conditions of the criminals who were once kept here to a history of the building including some rather gruesome images. Forced to wriggle through tiny corridors that lead to equally microscopic cells restored to how they once were complete with some original 19th-century prisoners' carvings in the walls, the overall effect of the place is both chilling and spooky. For more information go to: http://www.inyourpocket.com/poland/gdansk/sightseeing/museums/venue/20840-Amber_Museum.html http://www.inyourpocket.com/poland/gdansk/sightseeing/museums/venue/19835-Torture_Museum.html

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YouTube | May 8, 2008

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