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On the border of Nida, there is a house of the sculptor and artist Eduardas Jonusas. During the season, one can always meet guests, who came here in groups or one by one. Huge love and bent for the history and ethnography of the region, where he lives and creates, made E.Jonusas regional researcher, and turned his house into a real museum of the regional study. The guests collect eccenric pictures of Jonusas or leave with feeling never experienced before that one can live totally differently, inflenced by free spirits that exist right next to human beings.
E. Jonusas, who had settled in Neringa from 1956, decorated it with timber and copper sculptures. He also collected and restored over 100 almost gone gravestone monuments of the Curonian – crosses, ancient weathercocks of the Curonian ships, ordered up the grave of the dunes planter D. Kuvertas, and accomplished a lot while managing the interior of Nida’s church.
One of his most distinctive works is restoration of ancient kurenas (traditional sailing-boat) according to ancient drawings, delivered from Germany. This kurenas, named “Kursis” (Curonian), can be seen in the port of Nida or floating distantly on the Lagoon’s waves.
One of the well-known contemporary artists of Neringa, town’s honoured citizen E. Jonusas is a live history of the region. Tourism agencies functioning in Neringa had included the workshops of this artist into their routes already long time ago. Expositions of the artist are exhibited in exhibitions rooms of Neringa’s towns - partners.
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