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Myanmar Amber Museum
The Myanmar Amber Museum is located on 37st street in downtown Yangon, 100m East of City Hall. It is the only museum for Burmese Amber [widely known as Burmite] in Myanmar and is anticipating an increasing interest in Burmite Amber from the scientific community in the coming years. The collection contains many rare examples of cretaceous fauna and flora inclusions including leaves, pollen, flowers, leeches, beetles, insects, spiders, scorpions, reptiles and even dinosaur remains.

The exhibit takes around an hour to appreciate the diverse variety of inclusions entombed in Burmese Amber dating back almost 100 million years to the Cretaceous Period. The museum is interactive in its delivery; encouraging visitors to handle and examine intimate pieces of Amber themselves. Each part of the exhibit is accompanied by an information panel, in which the visitor can learn about the significance of Burmite as they move through the tour. Sophisticated and tasteful lightening is used at each stage to light up the exhibits to reveal their natural colours and inclusions. Magnifying glasses are provided throughout the exhibition to enable visitors to study the small inclusions in detail and compare different pieces of amber.

Museum Collection
The collection consists of a variety of Amber pieces collected specifically in the mines of Kachin State in the North of the country. The current exhibit includes over 100 individual pieces of interesting and rare amber pieces containing flora and fauna species from the Cretaceous Era.

The items on display in the museum are only a fraction of the amber collection that the museum has in its archives. The museum regularly rotates its display items to show different inclusion-species and has the capacity to transport its artefacts in schools, universities and research institutions for outreach, education and research. The museum also hosts groups of students from schools and Universities for day trips and educational workshops.The mission of the Museum is to tell the origin and history of the Cretaceous experience based on what is being found preserved in Burmite Amber. The museum is curated by Roger Long, a passionate amber collector whose objective is to provide a venue that will enable Burmese communities, tourists and scientists to examine and appreciate the importance of Burmite to the field of Palaeontology.

The Museum is also in part funded by the gift shop which sells many pieces of Burmite Amber and beautiful Jewellery.

To learn about the basics of Burmite Amber ‘See The Burmite Amber Page’

Myanmar Amber Museum website: https://www.myanmarambermuseum.org

Myanmar Amber Museum Address: 136, 37th Street, Yangon