Expositions “Okupacijų gniaužtuose” (“In Squeeze of Occupations”) and “Raudonasis teroras” (“Red Terror”) at the Panevėžys Local Lore Museum
Museum

In the central part of Panevėžys city.

At the end of the 19th century, the houses built by the famous Panevėžys citizens Moigai were expropriated by the Soviets. In 1940–1941, they housed the headquarters of a Soviet army unit, the NKGB Panevėžys district interrogation department, and the militia. One night in June 1941, the Soviet occupiers tortured three doctors from the Panevėžys hospital and four other people in the basement of this house. In 1944–1953, the NKVD–MVD–MGB Panevėžys district (since 1950, the district) department was located here. Now it is the premises of the Panevėžys Museum of Local Lore.

The exhibition "In the Grip of Occupations" reviews the Nazi and Soviet occupations. It introduces the topics of Jewish and Roma genocide, deportations, and partisan warfare. The section of the exhibition dedicated to 1953–1990 presents the everyday life of life in the "Khrushchevka", Soviet efforts to create a Soviet society and people's resistance to this oppression, and underground activities. You can hear a recording of a radio broadcast secretly listened to from abroad with Soviet interference.

The exhibition "Red Terror" is dedicated to the memory of the victims murdered in the basement of this house and shot near the Panevėžys sugar factory, and to the history of the crimes of the Soviet occupiers. The hopes of free people and their crushing after the Soviets came are allegorically expressed through spaces - the interior of the apartment of the tortured compassionate sister Zinaida Kanis-Kanevičienė from the times of Independent Lithuania and a replica of the NKVD interrogator's office.