Black-and-white photographs of more rough-and-ready days fill the thoughtfully laid-out displays here, where Nida’s tale from the Stone Age to 1939 is told. Particularly brilliant are the images of local hunters biting a crow’s neck to kill the bird, followed by them a taking a shot of vodka to dull the taste. Eating crows and seagulls’ eggs was common on the spit in the 17th to 19th centuries, when continually drifting sands rendered previously arable land useless.
