KGB Atomic Bunker Museum Museum

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LKTA rinkinys
 Raudondvario pl. 164A, Kaunas, Lithuania
 +37061815919

In Kaunas city, near the Raudondvaris highway (there is a directional road sign).

The "KGB Spy Museum" part of the museum exhibits surveillance, secret communication and other equipment used in security structures and secret services. As they say, here you can see the largest collection of secret photo equipment in Europe, starting with cameras installed in a tie, jacket button or cigarette pack. The "Atomic Bunker" also presents the workplaces of the duty interrogator and the KGB chief, the KGB photo laboratory, the Central Committee Politburo dentist's office. Visitors are surrounded by unique authentic items: the telephone used by Marshal Zhukov, a one-of-a-kind radio receiver specially made for Stalin, etc.

The museum also introduces military and civilian means of protection. The largest collection of gas masks and closed-circuit breathing apparatus in the Baltic States, and perhaps in Europe, is presented. You can see children's gas masks, gas masks for horses, and Lithuanian gas masks, which were started to be produced in 1935.

The museum presents not only the Cold War, but also the techniques and tools of both world wars and other eras.

The museum was established in 2014 in a former civil defense shelter, 6–7 meters underground. The shelter, built during the Soviet era, belonged to the Kaunas “Aidas” factory. The founder of the museum is Julius Urbaitis.

Used sources and references:

Atomic bunker, online access: https://www.atominisbunkeris.lt .

"Atomic Bunker", in: Directory of Lithuanian Private Museums, available online: https://www.privatusmuziejai.lt/objektai/16 .