Museum of Genocide Victims

The Museum of Occupations and Freedom Fights, formerly known as the Museum of Genocide Victims until 2018, is dedicated to the history of Lithuania under Soviet occupation during 1940-1941 and 1944-1991. As the name implies, it is mainly concerned with repressions of the Lithuanian people.

The museum is housed in a structure that is over 100 years old. Its history reflects the difficult events that occurred in Lithuania at the close of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century.

This former KGB (and before them the Gestapo, Polish invaders, and Tsarist judges) headquarters holds a museum devoted to hundreds of members of the Lithuanian resistance who were executed, imprisoned, or deported by the Soviet Union between WWII and the 1960s. Backlit images, wooden annexes, and a confusing arrangement heighten the effect of graphically depicted historical tragedies.

The Museum of Genocide Victims's exhibitions examine the history of the Soviet occupation and the operations of the Soviet secret agency. There are also exhibits on the armed and unarmed anti-Soviet resistance, as well as the Lithuanians who were deported to the Gulags and banished to the most remote corners of the Soviet Union.

Location: Vilnius