Guided Tour of KGB Museum in Vilnius (Museum of Occupation and Freedom Fights)

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KGB musuem — Photos: the activity supplier, via Viator

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About this activity

Take this interesting tour in the former KGB prison with professional English and Norwegian speaking guide. During the tour you will be able to visit: the former KGB prison, executions chamber, modern exhibitions about resistance movement and deportations and more. Guided tour lasts approximately 1 hour, but you can stay after the tour in the museum to take a look at the pictures and exhibition about deportations, KGB, resistance movement in Lithuania. Entrance ticket to the museum is not included in tour price (6EUR per person).

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At a glance

Duration: one hour
Confirmation: Confirmed within 48 hours
Ticket: Mobile or paper ticket accepted
Group: Your group only
People per booking: 1–15
Guide: Norwegian, English
Operated by: Norwegian English guide in Vilnius

What is included

Included

Included: Professional guide
Included: Private tour

Not included

Not included: Hotel pickup and drop-off

Itinerary

Norwegian English Guide in Vilnius

one hour Admission not included

The museum was established in the former KGB building, where the crimes of the Soviet regime were planned and executed for fifty years. Visitors can visit:

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.

We will walk in the former prison where political prisoners were kept and tortured. You will see where and how they were killed.

One chamber of 19 is dedicated to jewish Holocaust, because 1941-1944 the buiding was used as the German Gestapo and SD headquarters and a prison, barracks of the Sonderkommando of the city of Vilnius, which killed Jews and others.

At 2018 September Pope Francis ended his visit in Lithuania at KGB museum and prayed for the victims of the Soviet regime in Lithuania. The price for the tickets 6EUR is not included in the tour price.