Nida

Thomas Mann Museum

Museum's collection is made up of photos, books, and copies of documents reflecting life and works of Thomas Mann.

Thomas Mann (1875-1955) came to Nida on holiday and so liked the area that he built a summer house there to which his family came every year in the early 1930s. Thomas Mann is probably best known for the novel Dr. Faustus (1947) and the novella Death in Venice (1912). He wrote many more novels, and also essays on politics, music, literature and philosophy.The house is now a museum with information about the writer's work. It is also a venue for conferences and music recitals.

More information: www.mann.lt
 

Neringa history museum

Collection of the museum consists of historical-household displays, working tools, historical photographs, post-cards, collections of art works, where history and the present life of the Curonian Spit and Neringa are reflected.
 

Fishermans ethnographic homestead

"A homestead having suffered from ice floes of the Curonian Bay was given to the Neringa Museum of History in 1974. A homestead of the end of the XIX century - beginning of the XX century was arranged in it. There are two buildings here: a dwelling house and a farm building. A kitchen of a dwelling house and three rooms are furnished authentically. Decorated chairs, set of furniture of the sleeping room, trousseau chest with painted ornaments is especially interesting. Bride's and silver wedding's little wreaths are displayed on the walls."
 

Hermann - Blode - Museum

The Herman Blode hotel was built in 1867 in the Eastern part of what at that time was fishing settlement and became known as a house for artists. Prominent cultural personalities of the time such as the well-known Ludwig Passarge, Engelbert Humperding, and Thomas Mann, and many famous artists including E. Bischoff-Culm and Hans Borschke would live there in summer making an important part of Nida’s artist colony.
 

Evangelical-Lutheran Church

This church was built in 1887 - 1888. The contemporary Lutheran priest Gustav Echternach worked on construction of this church. During 1966 – 1988, History Museum of the Curonian Spit was functioning in the building of Nida’s church. Since the end of 1988, worship sessions are performed in the church again.
 

The Old Cemetery of Nida

Near the evangelical-lutheran Church is Nida ethnographic cemetery of XIX-XX c. In the old Nida cemetery visitors can see the very archaic wooden grave markers called krikstai. They were restored by the artist E. Jonusas. Nida's Old Cemetery is under protection and the rest place of people like the local hotelier Herman Blode and the Curonian preacher K. H. Mertikaitis.
 

Parnidis dune

Nida is home to some of the highest sand dunes in Europe. The most famous of them is probably the 52 m high Parnidis dune (Parndzio kopa). From the Dune of Parnidis you can enjoy the variety of the spit’s landscape: Baltic Sea, Curonian lagoon, center of Nida ... A sundial is located on top of the Parnidis Dune. It was build in 1995 by the architect R. Kristapavicius, sculptor K. Pudymas and astronomer R. Klimka. The original sundial finger was 12 m high and weighted about 200 tons. Unfortunately it was broken by the hurricane "Anatoly" on the 4th December 1999.
 

The Valley of Death

The Valley of Death is situated between the Dune of Parnidis and the Dune of Gliders. During 1870 – 1872, there was a camp of the French war captives established. Due to poor imprisonment conditions, exhaustion, and diseases a lot of the captives had died. They were buried at the camp cemetery set right here; that is why the valley has such a name.
 

Lighthouse

It is one of the largest and one of the most significant lighthouses on the seacoast of Lithuania. It was built in 1874 on the 51 meters tall Hill of Urbas (the height of the lighthouse then reached 27 m). The lighthouse was blasted during the World War II but it was restored and reconstructed in 1956. Current height of the lighthouse is 29.3 meters.