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Museum of Occupations and Freedom Fights
The former KGB headquarters, with its prison cells and execution chamber kept as they were.
- Open
- Closed Mondays and Tuesdays
- Price
- Paid
- Time Needed
- 1½ hours
- Address
- Aukų g. 2A, 01113 VilniusDirections
- Getting There
- On Gediminas Avenue, a 10-minute walk west of the cathedral.
Why Go
The Gestapo and then the KGB used this building, and thousands of Lithuanians were questioned, held or killed here. Upstairs, exhibits cover the Soviet occupations, the deportations and the partisans who fought on in the forests into the 1950s; the basement cells are the most powerful part.
Nearby in Vilnius
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