Smiltynes pl. 3,
LT-5800 KLAIPEDA
Tel.: (+370 46) 49 07 40
Fax: (+370 46) 49 07 50
Website: www.juru.muziejus.lt

The Lithuanian Sea Museum is located in Kopgalis, the northernmost point of the Curonian Spit. In the second half of the 19th century, a sea fortress was built in Kopgalis. Its fortification system consisted of a central redoubt (designed as living quarters for the garrison), a defensive moat, ramparts with casemates located underneath, and gunpowder magazines. At the end of World War II the fortress was partially destroyed (the central redoubt blown up), and for a long time it was not used. Following the restoration and reconstruction of the fortress in 1979, the main exhibits of the Lithuanian Sea Museum were put on display there.

The reconstructed central redoubt houses aquariums with fish species from Lithuania's fresh waters, the Baltic Sea and tropic seas, as well as a permanent display of prepared samples of marine fauna. Penguins, Baltic Sea seals and Steller's Sea lions live in the outdoor pools next to the aquarium building. An exposition of the history of Lithuanian navigation has been put on display in the casemates - former gunpowder magazines located beneath the fortress ramparts, while a collection of ancient and modern anchors is placed on former cannon platforms on the ramparts. An ethnographic fisherman's farmstead has been built on the shore of the Curonian Lagoon at the place where the old Kopgalis fishing village used to stand. Next to the farmstead there is a ground with fishing vessels which gave a start to industrial fishing in Lithuania.
Total exposition area - about 85 000 m² (2 466 m² indoors and 30 558 m² outdoors). Total number of exhibits - 60 062.

In 1994 a dolphinarium was opened, the last item in the Lithuanian Sea Museum complex, which covers all areas of human relations with the sea. The comprehensive approach makes our museum different from other Sea museums of Europe.

Closed on the following public holidays:

January 1st, November 1st, and December 25th.
During school holidays the Museum is open from 10.30 to 15.30 (except Mondays and Tuesdays), dolphin shows are held at 12.00 if more than 15 visitors gather (on Saturdays and Sundays at 12.00 and 15.00 hours).

Entrance fee:

To the Sea Museum and Aquarium:

Adults 6-8 Lt
children, schoolchildren, students, retired persons
4-3 Lt

To the Steller's Sea lion Shows: 3 - 4 Lt
Camera fee: 5 Lt
Guide tour price: in Lithuanian: 20 Lt
In a foreign language: 40 Lt (German, English, Russian)

To matinee dolphin shows:

	July and August	all other months
Adults:	12 Lt	10 Lt
Children, schoolchildren, retired persons	6 Lt	5 Lt
Groups (over 15 people.):
Adults:	10 Lt	8 Lt
Children, schoolchildren, retired persons	5 Lt	4 Lt

To water shows & concerts: a special ticket price fixed.
All tickets available at the ticket offices of the Sea Museum and the Dolphinarium.
Ticket office phone: (370 46) 49 07 54

The Administration of the Lithuanian Sea Museum reserves the right to amend the ticket prices.

Skruzdynes str. 17
LT - 5872 NIDA
Tel.: (+370 469) 52 260
E-mail: mann@nida.omnitel.net
Website: http://www.mann.lt/

The famous German writer, Thomas Mann, a winner of the Nobel Prize, took his family to Nida for the first time in 1929. Then he decided to have a summer cottage there. At the end of Skruzdyne street, on the Uosve (which means Mother's-in-Law) Dune he found a vacant piece of land and with the help of E.Molenhauer rented it for 99 years. Very soon, just in half a year, an architect, H.Reisman, drew the project and built the house. It was the very first private cottage in Nida. Thomas Mann and his family spent their summers here from 1930 to 1932. Here he wrote his novel "Joseph and His Brothers".
When Hitler came to the power in Germany in 1933, the writer T.Mann and his family had to emigrate from the country. They also had to leave their summer cottage in the Curonian Spit. The writer authorised E.Molenhauer to take care of his cottage. But soon World War II started and Reich's Field-Marshall Gering was going to turn it into a hunting lodge. After the war it became a residence of the leader of the Lithuanian Communist Party, Snieckus. Latter the Young Specialists' Hotel was set up here.
The writer A.Venclova defined further history of this house. During his visit to Germany in 1955, he met Thomas Mann, who asked him about the cottage in Nida. Since then A.Venclova took care of it and soon the cottage was donated to the Klaipeda Library as a summer reading room. The current memorial exposition was opened in 1967. It tells about the writer T.Mann and his works. Mann family photographs and books translated into different languages are presented for visitors.

The reconstruction of the house was finished in 1996. Today it appears in the way it looked in early thirties. Maya Elerman gave the painting "Old Nida Rescue Station Near the Sea" by her father Ernst Molenhauer to the museum as a present in eighties. This painting now hangs in veranda. The cottage itself is an object of interest. The Thomas Mann Culture Centre was established here. Classical music and poetry fans meet here on summer evenings.

Opening hours:

September - May
II - VI 11AM - 5PM
June - August
II - VII 10AM - 6PM

Entrance fee:

adults 2 Lt
kids 0,5 Lt

Pamario str.53
LT - 5872 NIDA
Tel.: (+370 469) 52 372

This exhibit represents such traditional occupations in the Curonian Spit as fishing, catching crows and others.
The artifacts belong to the Neringa History Museum, which has rich collection of fisherman's tools. Visitors will find here the models of kurenas and great kurenas - traditional fishing boats in the Curonian Spit, made by the old Nida's fisherman Mikelis Engelinass.

Opening hours:

October - April
II - VI 11AM - 5PM
May - September
II - VII 11AM - 7PM

Entrance fee:

adults 2 Lt
kids, students 0,5 Lt

Fisherman's Ethnographic Farmstead

Nagliu str. 4
LT - 5872 NIDA
Tel.: (+370 469) 52 372

The main building in the Fisherman's Ethnographic Farmstead was built in 1900, but in the beginning of eighties ice floes destroyed the dwelling house. The family that lived there was moved to another place and, after restoration of the dwelling, the ethnographic farmstead was set up here.
The old building had so called "two end" planning. However it wasn't complete. Later the museum authority constructed the second half of the building and obtained more space by not breaking the traditions because it was rather common to attach new rooms to the house when grown up children got married. The western part of the dwelling, water well and environment were restored by analogy with other ethnographic farmsteads.
The display, which is located in the old part, tells visitors about the fisherman's life. There are six rooms in the house - two on one side and four on another - divided by a corridor. Past the entrance on the left, one will be in the kitchen. The white-glazed tile stove and oven for bread baking stand there. The room behind the kitchen is called "magia stuba", which means "small room", and the next room is called "diza stuba", which means "large room". The fourth room adjoins the kitchen between the large room and the corridor. All rooms are set up in the way old fishermen lived. Visitors will see furniture, dishes and other equipment used for the housekeeping.

Four fishing boats lie near the farmstead - from simple ones to the traditional dragnet boat, which is called "kurenas". All boats are original and were used for fishing some time ago.

Opening hours:

October - April
II-VI 11AM-5PM
May - September
II-VII 11AM-7PM

Entrance fee:

adults 1 Lt
kids, students 0,5 Lt

Pamario str. 20,
LT-5872 NERINGA - NIDA
Tel.: (+370 469) 52 573,
Tel./Fax: (+370 469) 52 712
E-mail.: info@ambergallery.lt
Website: www.ambergallery.lt

Taikos str. 4
LT-5872 NIDA
Tel. (+370 469) 52 538

Opening hours:

May- September 12AM-7PM

Entrance is free of charge.