The National Museum in Gdansk has installed a collection of impressive works from Lucjan Myrta’s atelier in stately rooms of the Green Gate, a building constituting a part of so-called water gates to the city on the riverbank of Motlawa but since the very beginning performing a function of honour as a residence of Polish monarchs visiting Gdansk.
 This collection, having been created for 30 years, is getting bigger both as it comes to numbers and a scale of objects. A formal exhibition opening took place on Tuesday 15th July 2008 in the presence of the Marshal of Pomerania Voivodeship, Jan Kozlowski, who presented Master Lucjan with the “Gloria Artis” medal of merit, granted by Bogdan Zdrojewski, the Minister of Culture and National Heritage.
The exhibition appears more impressive than during the six-year exposition in the Main Town Hall, called “Sea Jewels”, although the collection lacks quite a few objects having been purchased by the Historical Museum of Gdansk. They have been replaced by new, huge objects, mainly furniture: treasures (from which originates the name of the exhibition) supplemented by a wall table and a big clock (120 kilos – sic!) and nearly 4-metre mahogany, English-style cabinet, exquisitely decorated by colourful amber mosaics showing fantastic and exotic birds. The exhibition is being opened by a peculiar happening in the time of a raw material shortage in the market: large aquariums with sumberged amber nuggets of a unique size in the amount of 71, plus 20,000 cut nuggets with organic inclusions. No museum of amber can be proud of such collection.
The exhibition will be open till 10th December 2008, from Tuesday to Sunday till 8 p.m.
Photo: The cabinet made of mahogany, gilded bronze and amber nearly 4 metre high in the Green Gate. Photo by Wieslaw Gierlowski 2008-07-22 | 
