KGB Museum & Headquarters; Vilnius

The museum (officially named "Museum of Occupations and Freedom Fights") is situated in the former KGB building in Vilnius old town, where the crimes of the Soviet regime were planned and executed for fifty years. During our visit we saw:

The former KGB prison,

The premises where death sentences were implemented,

Modern exhibitions telling about the loss of independence in the middle of the 20th century, repressions by Soviet authorities, and the self-sacrificing and persistent fight for independence.

This was a very sobering and informative museum detailing the struggles of the Lithuanian people starting with Russian occupation in the 1930s (before WW2) followed by Germany in WW2 and then Russian occupation again in the 1940s through the early 1990s.Read more