KGB Museum Vilnius, Vilnius

KGB Museum Vilnius, Vilnius (Lithuania)

The Museum of Occupations and Freedom Fights in Vilnius Lithuania was established in 1992 by order of the Minister of Culture and Education and the president of the Lithuanian Union of Political Prisoners and Deportees. In 1997 it was transferred to the Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania. The museum is located in the former KGB headquarters across from Lukiks Square and is informally referred to as the KGB Museum. The museum is dedicated mostly to collecting and exhibiting documents relating to the 50-year occupation of Lithuania by the Soviet Union the anti-Soviet Lithuanian partisans and the victims of the arrests deportations and executions that took place during this period.