Amber Bay is the name of a small, idyllic lagoon inlet in the northern part of Juodkrantė. In summer, reed sculptures are displayed here and burned during the autumn equinox festival. In 1855, while the bottom of the Curonian Lagoon near Juodkrantė was being dredged for shipping, workers found amber in the mud. Various businessmen soon took an interest in the discovery. The first to organise digging mud from the lagoon bed in search of amber was Wilhelm Stantien, a former miller and shipowner and later an innkeeper in Klaipėda. When merchants from Danzig joined him, the amber dredging company "W. Stantien & M. Becker" was set up. It was helped by the authorities, who were deepening the shipping channel between Klaipėda and Kranz and wanted to profit from the amber search themselves. With joint efforts, the company grew rich. The company encouraged the people of Juodkrantė to take part in amber dredging, as it needed cheap labour. As the volumes grew, spacious barracks were built north of Juodkrantė, and a ship repair yard, a harbour quay and workshops for making divers' suits were opened. Juodkrantė gradually became an industrial town. Amber was dredged only in summer – about 30 weeks a year in three shifts. The amber raised from the lagoon bed had to be cleaned and separated from impurities. From 1860 to 1890 an average of about 75,000 kg of amber was extracted per year. As output began to decline, the dredging contract was not renewed in 1890, and amber dredging in Juodkrantė came to an end. While the bay's harbour was being dug, a collection of Middle Neolithic and Bronze Age amber artefacts was found on the lagoon bed; it later became known as the Juodkrantė amber treasure. The greatest credit for preserving the collection goes to Richard Klebs, an adviser to the "W. Stantien & M. Becker" company and professor at the University of Königsberg, who described it in his book "Amber Jewellery of the Stone Age", so the treasure is often named after him. Exhibitions in various cities around the world made the treasure famous worldwide. After the Second World War only 5 finds from the Juodkrantė treasure remained: three human figurines, a phallic pendant and a double ornamented disc. Together with other surviving pieces of the treasure, they are kept in the Geoscience Museum of the University of Göttingen. Based on the descriptions and drawings in R. Klebs's book, the artist Bronė Kunkulienė made two sets of amber replicas, now displayed at the Palanga Amber Museum and the Mizgiris Amber Gallery in Nida.