Spring season with Neringa Forest Architecture tours!
NAC continues  guided tours by foresters, landscape planners, historians, biologists, artists, and architects. Saturdays, 12 pm local professionals from various fields lead the tours in Curonian Spit, sharing their experience and knowledge about its history, stories, landscape, features, and infrastructure.

Tours are free of charge and open to everyone. Registration is mandatory via email 

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Upcoming tours:

Saturday, 11 March, 12 pm.

Forest as a Space

Anton Shramkov explores the spatiality of the forest. Local surroundings of Preila are understood as a habitat with its laws and spatial compositions which has immediate influence on humans. The group crosses all sections of the peninsula: the lagoon, town, forest, dunes, reoad and coast, observing the spatial shift.

Meeting point: Preila bus stop

Anton Shramkov was born in Moscow and graduated in architecture from the Moscow Institute of Architecture. He worked as a lecturer in Russia and Sweden. He has been living in Preila since 2007.

Saturday, 18 March, 12 pm.

Greenkeepers of Nida dunes

In the Curonian Spit, the dunes were forested to tame the desertification. This is a product of the hard labour and dedication of people. The Nida Greenkeepers' old cemetery is separate from the other burial grounds. During the tour, Gražina Žemaitienė answers the questions. Who were the planters of dunes in Nida and why are their tombs located separately from the rest of Nida's inhabitants? Where did they lived? What does Urbo hill represent today and what was its significance in the past?

Meeting point: In front of the old Nida dunes landscapers' cemetery, at the intersection of the road and G. D. Kuvertas Street (middle entrance to Nida)

Gražina Žemaitienė, born in Šilutė, studied at Kaunas University of Technology, moved to Neringa in 1989. Gražina's areas of work include the development and implementation of landscape projects in the Curonian Spit, planning of recreational facilities both on forest land and in urbanised areas, and preventive maintenance work for visitors to the Curonian Spit.

In collaboration with Nida Culture and Tourism information Center “Agila” and Curonian Spit National Park NAC is launching a series of free Neringa Forest Architecture tours. 

As discussions surrounding human intervention and activities in the natural landscape gain increasing significance, NAC is hosting a new research and residency programme called Neringa Forest Architecture. The project positions the Curonian forest as an experimental case study; an opportunity for participants to analyze the broader scope of forest-as-infrastructure including topics such as growth, transformation, policy making, management, technology, art and design in the Baltic-Scandinavian region.

As a part of the programme, NAC is facilitating a series of guided tours. Using the onsite woodshed as a literal and figurative departure point (the shed houses Neringa timber and is itself an object and location made using local wood), this series of walking expeditions is designed to cultivate inquiry and discussion about the unique juncture between ecological, political/managerial, recreational and industrial narratives associated with the Curonian woods, landscape and the built environment. 

Guided by forestry and national park experts, and architects living and working in the Curonian Spit in dialogue with pupils from Nida Gymnasium, Neringa Forest Architecture Tours facilitate conversation as well as exploration and education. The excursions, while an opportunity to observe the unique qualities of the Neringa Forest, are also a chance to engage in critical dialogue with professionals and pupils while traversing shifting geographical landscapes. Discussions will focus on the Curonian forest and its distinct eco-socio-political features including the complex legal and managerial processes behind its picturesque façade: How were the forests of Neringa planted? Why does the Neringa Forest and its pathways look this way? Why do trees need to be cut down? How does the local (human and animal) community participate in the making of Neringa Forest? What state and civic agencies and institutions are responsible in shaping it? What architecture is envisaged but currently not built? What do people in Neringa desire most in terms of infrastructure and why can it not be realised?

The excursions are free of charge but with a limited number of places available. Registration is mandatory by email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . 

Neringa Forest Architecture is co-funded by NERINGA Lithuanian Capital of Culture 2021, Lithuanian Council for Culture and Nordic Culture Point.