Every month NAC invites foresters, landscape planners, historians, biologists, artists, and architects to lead the tours in Curonian Spit. This month gatherings will take place on Saturdays, at 12 pm. Local professionals from various fields will share their knowledge, history, and insights into the environment and social structure of the peninsula. The tours are conducted in Lithuanian but there is a possibility to organize on the spot translation to English.

Tours are free of charge and open to everyone. Registration is mandatory via email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Saturday, 22 April, 12 pm

Hike to Giedružė Dune

Forester Gediminas Virginijus Dikšas leads the group to the top of Giedružė dune, which is hardly reached by touristic paths. On the way G.V. Dikšas shares more than 50 years of experience in working with ancient forest and coppice of young trees that group passes. 

Meeting point: Bottom of Angis Hill, next to the entry to Thomas Mann museum, in the parking area (next to Pamario str. 55, Nida)

Gediminas Virgilijus Dikšas is a long-time forester and ranger of Nida Forest division, he has been living and working in Nida since 1970 and is currently in retirement.

Saturday, 8 April, 12 pm

Parnidis landscape reserve tour

During the tour G. Žemaitienė discusses the stories and myths behind the Parnidis dune, why it still exists as a sand dune and hasn’t been planted as the rest of the dunes. Whether we really improve the landscape with outdoor sculptures, and the five hills settlement.

Meeting point: Nida Art Colony, E. A. Jonušo str. 3,  Nida

Born in Šilutė, Žemaitienė studied at Kaunas University of Technology and moved to Neringa in 1989. Žemaitienė’s areas of work encompass the planning and realisation of landscape projects in the Curonian Spit and recreational objects in the forest as well as urban areas, and preventive work for visitors of 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 

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