Museum of the History of Freedom Struggles in Obeliai
Museum

In Obeliai, Vytauto St. (Obeliai–Zarasai road, KK117) on the left side (there is a directional sign).

The museum was founded in 1998. It presents the development of the Lithuanian state, the history of the Obeliai region, Lithuanian folk art, and a large part of the exposition is devoted to the theme of the struggle for freedom. It is not for nothing that this museum is presented as an institution of patriotic and national education.

Exhibits testifying to the struggle for freedom were collected and donated to the museum by teacher and former partisan Andrius Dručkus (1928–2018). The exhibits were painstakingly collected as a personal collection during the years of Soviet occupation, and they were successfully protected from the watchful eye of Soviet security. A. Dručkus was also the initiator of the establishment of this museum.

In addition to the themes of Soviet repression, exile, partisan warfare, anti-Soviet resistance and Sąjūdis, common to all of Lithuania, conveyed through the experience of the Obeliai region, the museum also stands out with its own unique accents. The history of the emergence, destruction and restoration of the unique monument to the June 1941 insurgents and victims of Soviet terror in Obeliai is revealed. The Lithuanian national defense system after 1990 is introduced, and an exhibition of uniforms of the Lithuanian army and other structures is presented. The museum's outdoor exhibition has built replicas of the Lithuanian partisan bunker and the exile barrack in Siberia. They can be visited, and special educational programs are offered to get to know the everyday life of partisans and exiles, to feel what it means to live in a bunker or barrack.

The museum is located in the building where the Obeliai parish NKVD-MVD-MGB subdivision and the headquarters of the stribes operated in 1944–1953, imprisoning, interrogating and torturing Lithuanian people.