Museum of Genocide Victims

KGB Inner Prison | Collections | Armed Resistance | Unarmed Resistance | Repressive Institutions | Deportation

Open: 10:00 - 17:00
except:
Sunday: 10:00 - 15:00
Monday: closed
Admission and other fees:
Adults - 4 Lt
Schoolchildren - 1 Lt
Guided tour for up to 20 visitors in Lithuanian - 15 Lt
Guided tour for up to 20 visitors in another language 30 Lt
Guided tour for over 20 visitors in Lithuanian - 20 Lt
Guided tour for over 20 visitors in another language 40 Lt
Hire of headphones and recorded tour in English - 8 Lt
Photography permit (per visitor) - 4 Lt
Video permit (per visitor) - 10 Lt

Free admission for children under 7
50% discount for students from September to June
Admission is free on Wednesdays from September to June

The Museum of Genocide Victims was established by the order of Minister of Culture and Education of the Republic of Lithuania and President of the Union of Political Prisoners and Deportees, dated October 14, 1992. It was established at the same building where plans of deportations and arrests of the population, persecution of the opponents, suppression of resistance were created and carried out by Soviet repression institutions from 1940 to 1991.
For the whole Lithuanian nation, this building is a symbol of the 50-year Soviet occupation. The museum, which was established in former KGB headquarters, is the only one of its kind in former Soviet republics.

The museum was re-organized in 1997. By the Resolution of the Government of the Republic of Lithuania, dated March 24, 1997, the rights of the founder of museum were taken over by the Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania. Now it is a part of the said Centre. Its purpose is to collect, to keep and to present historic documents about the forms of physical and spiritual genocide against Lithuanian people, the ways and extent of the resistance against Soviet regime.