Macikai Camp Penal Cell – Museum Museum

The exposition is located 2 km from Šilutė, in the village of Macikai, located on the left bank of the Šyša River, on the territory of a former manor.

In 1939–1944, a prisoner-of-war camp "Stalag 1C Heydekrug" was set up in Macikai, where Poles, Belgians, French and Russians were imprisoned as prisoners of war. In 1944–1946, after the Soviets occupied Lithuania for the second time, camp No. 184 was established here, where German prisoners of war were imprisoned. From 1946 to 1948, the prisoner-of-war camp was reorganized into the GULAG's Šilutė (Macikai) Department No. 3, which operated until 1955. After the reorganization, civilians who did not trust the Soviet occupation authorities began to be imprisoned there.

The relatively small territory of the camp accommodated all Soviet attributes: barracks, solitary confinement cell, sanitary facilities, and 3,000 people could be imprisoned here at one time, a third of them Lithuanians.

Of the former concentration camp buildings, only the solitary confinement cell has survived. In 1995, at the initiative of the Šilutė Union of Deportees and Political Prisoners, a solitary confinement cell-museum was established in the former solitary confinement building in Macikai. It houses the Šilutė Hugo Šojus Museum exposition, which reflects different periods of the camp's history.