Museum of Occupations and Freedom Fights

This was a very heavy experience. They do not sugar-coat the atrocities. This museum has so much information and history. I HIGHLY recommend buying the regular ticket AND the audio tour. If you don’t have it, it’s too much to read. There are hundreds of things to learn about and read, so the audio is awesome. They give you the player and the headphones, so don’t worry about bringing anything. Going through the entire museum took us 3.5 hours and we could have gone longer but we hadn’t eaten yet and were very hungry. The audio tour also tells you a bit more information than just reading the English signage. I’ve been quite a few places in Vilnius and this is the one place I think EVERYONE should go. Please be respectful while you’re there and try to learn as much as you can.

Visiting the Museum of Occupation and Freedom Fights in Vilnius was an incredibly moving experience. It is deeply emotional and heartbreaking to read and see how people suffered during those times. The exhibits are very well documented, and the museum has preserved its originality in a powerful way that allows you to feel the weight of history within its walls. It’s not an easy place to walk through, but it is an important one — a reminder of resilience, sacrifice, and the value of freedom.

A great museum about a tragic history. I recommend visiting and taking time to reflect. The prison part impressed me the most, as you can feel its atmosphere, and what happened in those rooms is well described on the plaques by the doors. One of my favorite places I visited in Vilnius

Best and the most substantial museum that I've ever been to. Totally worth the (cheap) price. You can learn a lot about Lithuanian 20th century history.

Definitely visit this museum if you are interested in knowing how life and society was in the 1900s. Detailed exhibits with descriptions also in English. Seeing the actual rooms and reading about the crimes that were committed there is heart breaking but it is important to know about these things.

Discover the dark history of the Soviet occupation in Lithuania on a guided tour of the KGB Museum and the Occupation Museum. Because some things should not be forgotten. Essentially, one learns about the spirit of the Lithuanians against the Soviet Occupation.

When you visit this place you get quite. What humans do to humans is unbelievable. Humans are very good to kill each other because you live on a certain place, have a diffent believe or have just another way of living. The prison in the basement shows how cruel live can be from the imprisonment where you are put in a 0.6 sqm small space, just standing there for three hours. The kitchen of the prison was the killing room. 45 people were killed the most on one day. Worst time was under German and Stalin regime. A live counted nothing The museum is very well organized and makes you travel back in time. The locals stood up for their country well knowing to be killed one day, tortured or shot. They believed in the freedom of the country.

Also known as the KGB Museum. An absolute must see if you go to Lithuania (& very clear connotations of the repression of the Lithuanian people under Soviet rule). Stark reality brought how as you visit the below ground cells.