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      If it rains: amber, a bunker and the big museum

      ⏱ 5 h 30 min🚶 3.2 km🍽 2📍 5 stops
      🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

      Almost the whole day indoors: the Amber Museum in a fort, lunch in the casemates, the region’s history in the former Stadthalle and Commandant Lasch’s underground bunker.

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        🖼 Amber Museum (Dohna Tower)
        пл. Маршала Василевского, 1
        🎟 ticket
        A museum in a round fort tower on the Upper Lake: Baltic amber, inclusions and amber work from ancient times to the present.
        Start at the Amber Museum — it opens at 10:00, closed on Mondays. Don’t miss the rooms with inclusions — insects and plants in amber.
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        Amber Museum (Dohna Tower)
        © A.Savin · FAL 1.3
        Amber Museum (Dohna Tower)
        © Kemal KOZBAEV · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The museum is in the Dohna Tower — a round fortification of 1853, 34 metres across, on the shore of the Upper Lake.
        • The first part of the museum opened on 29 December 1979.
        • Nearby, in the village of Yantarny, is the largest known amber deposit, with more than 90% of the world’s reserves.
        • The tower was named after the Prussian field marshal Friedrich Karl zu Dohna.
        • In April 1945 the tower was a German strongpoint — it was taken during the storming of Königsberg.
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      3. 2
        🍽 Solnechny Kamen restaurant
        пл. Маршала Василевского, 3 (Росгартенские ворота)
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        Lunch in the neighbouring Rossgarten Gate — under the vaults of the casemates.
        🍴 A fish restaurant in the casemates of the Rossgarten Gate. What to order: klopse (Königsberg meatballs), zander, stroganina (thin shavings of frozen raw fish), tsarskaya pokhlyobka (“tsar’s soup”), Nikolaevskaya kulebyaka (a layered pie), strudel.
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      5. 3
        🖼 Museum of History and Art
        ул. Клиническая, 21
        🎟 ticket
        The region’s main museum, in the former Stadthalle of 1912 on the shore of the Lower Lake: the history and art of the region.
        Along the Lower Lake — 15–20 minutes — to the Museum of History and Art: the region’s history from ancient times to the present day.
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        Museum of History and Art
        © Felix O · CC BY-SA 2.0
        • The main building is the former Stadthalle, the city concert hall of 1912 on the shore of the Lower Lake.
        • The museum was founded on 7 August 1946 as the regional museum of local history.
        • It became a museum of history and art in 1977.
        • The museum has branches in the city — the Bunker and Fort No. 5.
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        🖼 Bunker Museum
        ул. Университетская, 1
        🎟 ticket
        The underground command post of Otto Lasch, commandant of Königsberg, where the city’s surrender was accepted in April 1945.
        The entrance to the bunker is by the university building on Universitetskaya Street: you go down underground, where the city’s fate was decided in April 1945. It’s cool inside.
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        Bunker Museum
        © Mike like0708 · CC BY 4.0
        Bunker Museum
        © Mike like0708 · CC BY 4.0
        Bunker Museum
        © Mike like0708 · CC BY 4.0
        Bunker Museum
        © Rimantas Lazdynas · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • It is the former command post of Fortress Königsberg, where the city’s surrender was accepted in April 1945.
        • The bunker became a branch of the regional museum in 1968.
        • It is often called the “Blindazh” (dugout), although in fortification terms it is not a dugout.
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      9. 5
        🍽 Shprot fish restaurant
        Гвардейский пр., 3, ТРЦ «Европа»
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        Finish at the Evropa mall — 15 minutes on foot: a fish dinner in the shopping centre.
        🍴 An inexpensive fish restaurant in the Evropa mall — handy when it rains. What to order: bonito stroganina (thin shavings of frozen raw fish), cod in tempura, eel, ukha (fish soup), fried sprats, Shprot beer.

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