Museum of the History of Freedom Fights and Exile in Priekulė
Museum

In Priekulė, on Klaipėdos Street (there is a directional sign).

The museum is located in the buildings of the former East Prussian gendarmerie station. They were built in 1909 according to a typical project. After the war, the buildings were occupied by Soviet repressive structures: in 1945–1950, the NKVD-MVD-MGB Priekulė parish subdivision operated here, in 1950–1953, the MGB Priekulė district department, and in 1946–1953, the Priekulė riot police headquarters were also located here. People were interrogated and tortured in the main building of the former station and its basement, detainees were imprisoned in the former farm building, and the bodies of the murdered were dumped in another building. The bodies were later buried in the garden deep in the plot or taken out and dumped in a peat bog in Drukiai.

The museum opened its doors in these premises in 2006. The main themes of the exposition are the post-war resistance struggle and deportations in this Klaipėda region. The museum also has an outdoor exposition: a deportation wagon and a replica of a partisan bunker are on display. Signs of memory have been created on the museum territory: a chapel has been installed, chapel pillars created by folk artists stand, and a memorial has been built on the site of a mass grave.