Bitterfeld District Museum

Germany's only economically important source of amber once lay beneath the massive brown coal seams of the Bitterfeld mining area. Until 1992, the Bitterfeld miners mined the fossil resin, which is over 20 million years old.
Since 2001, the Bitterfeld District Museum has been showing the history of Germany's only notable amber mining site in an impressive permanent exhibition. The show provides information on the history of the formation of the fossil resin from the Neogene period to its mining in modern times. Impressive inclusions of plants and insects, an excursion into the variety of forms and types of amber, its extraction and processing make a visit to the museum, founded in 1892, worthwhile. 

Other special focuses of the Bitterfeld Museum are the history of geology, stoneware, lignite mining in the Bitterfeld region and the history of ballooning.

Facts:

1892: Founded by Emil Obst

1901: Move to girls' school

1905: City Museum

1961: District Museum

from 2001: Amber exhibition