KGB Nuclear Bunker Museum Museum

The museum is located in Kaunas, close to the Raudondvaris highway (signs have been installed). The “Spy Museum of the KGB” section of the museum features surveillance, secret com munications and other equipment used by national security authorities and secret services. It is believed to house the larg est collection of secret photographic equipment in Europe, for instance, cameras embedded in a tie, a jacket button or a pack of cigarettes. The nuclear bunker also houses the work places of an investigator on duty and the head of the KGB, the photo laboratory of KGB, and an exhibition of the dentist serving the Politburo of the Communist Party. Visitors are surrounded by unique, authentic objects: a telephone used by Marshal Zhukov, a one-of-a-kind radio receiver made especially for Stalin, etc. The museum also presents military and civil protection equip ment. The largest collection of gas masks and closed-circuit breathing apparatus in the Baltic states, and possibly in Europe, is on display. Gas masks for children, gas masks for horses and Lithuanian gas masks that have been made since 1935 can be seen here. The museum showcases not only Cold War equipment but also machinery and equipment from both World Wars and other eras. The museum was established in 2014 in a former civil defence shelter 6–7 metres underground. The Soviet-era building be longed to the Aidas factory in Kaunas.