The Baltic Sea and its Amber
Baltic Cruise
Jun 17 - Jul 5 2006

Arrival in Frankfurt

Copenhagen

Viking Museum

With the group

Departure

Setting sail

Gdansk, Poland

Vilnius, Lithuania

Riga, Latvia

To Sweden

Stockholm

To Finland

Helsinki

Tallin, Estonia

St. Petersburg
Eckehard Simon
Lecture I
The Origin of the
Baltic Sea and Its Amber
Part I (slides 1-13)
How the Baltic Sea was formed
Part II (slides 14-33)
Collecting, Harvesting, and Working
Baltic Amber
Lecture II
Amber in Science and Art
Part I (slides 1-20)
Amber in Science
Part II (slides 21-35)
Amber in Art
Lecture III
The Catherine Palace Amber
Room in “Czar’s Village” near
St. Petersburg
Part I (slides 1-20)
How and why the Prussian king had it built,
how the Czars acquired and enlarged it
.
Part II (slides 21-53)
How it was lost, the great search it sparked,
and how Russian artists restored it.
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Lectures on board