The Museum of Genocide Victims in Vilnius is the only museum in the former Soviet Union, located in the former KGB building (during the Nazi occupation there was also the Gestapo). The building itself is a historical monument and the only change in its appearance is the granite slabs on one of the walls, on which the names of Lithuanians-partisans who fought after the Second World War for independence from the USSR were knocked out. The museum was opened in 1992

The exposition consists of a basement (former KGB prison) and two floors dedicated to the Soviet occupation, as well as the armed and unarmed resistance of the Soviet government and the consequences of this resistance.

In the basement there is the oldest part of the exposition that has not changed much since the opening of the museum. . You can see the reconstruction of how the cells looked for prisoners in 1944-1947, during the most active actions of partisans (cells left over There were no furniture in the small rooms that were supposed to be single, right on the cement floor, according to the museum annotation, up to 15 people, there was no furniture, in all the cells the light was on 24 hours a day , and for the interrogation of prisoners called at night . Prison walls were often repainted to hide the inscriptions left on the walls of the cells . For partial demonstration, some of the walls left partially scraped paint layers, the number of which reaches eight dtsati .

There are several bags in the next cell with the KGB documents destroyed by the shredder. Some of the documents were also burned, the most important documents were removed, but about twenty thousand volumes were preserved and are in the Special Archive of Lithuania

Useful Information

The museum is open daily except Monday and Tuesday from 10:00 to 18:00, the cost of admission is 6 LTL.

Address: Vilnius, Auky, 2A.