Thomas Mann Memorial Museum
The writer's 1930 summer house above the Curonian Lagoon, now a memorial museum and culture centre.
Thomas Mann first visited the Curonian Spit in 1929 and had a summer house built the following year on Uosves hill above Nida, overlooking the lagoon and the dunes. It was designed by the Klaipeda architect Herbert Reissmann in the local fishermen's style, with a steep reed-thatched roof and blue shutters. Mann spent the summers of 1930, 1931 and 1932 here with his family and worked on the Joseph tetralogy; he left Germany in 1933 and never returned to the house.
The building later served as a guest house and was restored in the 1960s, opening as a memorial museum in 1967. The rooms hold a documentary exhibition on Mann's life, his work and the three summers on the Spit, together with period furnishings and photographs of Nida. Since 1995 it has also worked as a cultural centre, running the annual international Thomas Mann Festival of concerts and readings each July as well as talks, residencies and seminars through the year.
Highlights
- Thatched 1930 summer house designed by Herbert Reissmann
- Documentary display on Thomas Mann's years on the Curonian Spit
- Hillside setting with views over the lagoon and dunes
- Home of the annual international Thomas Mann Festival
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