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Key facts
- Artist
- Andreas Schlüter , Gottfried Wolfram
- Medium
- Amber , gold leaf , gemstone , mirror
- Movement
- Classicism
- Weight
- 6 tonnes (13,000 lb)
- Condition
- reconstruction
- Location
- Catherine Palace , Pushkin, Saint Petersburg
- Owner
- Russian Federation
- Website
- amberroom .ru
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Reconstructed Amber Room, 2003
The Amber Room (Russian: Янтарная комната, romanized: Yantarnaya Komnata, German: Bernsteinzimmer) was a chamber decorated in amber panels backed with gold leaf and mirrors, located in the Catherine Palace of Tsarskoye Selo near Saint Petersburg.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Amber Room” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.