Kaunas Ninth Fort Museum
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Kaunas 9th Fort Museum was established in 1958. Its destination is to present to the public the history of Kaunas 9th Fort, crimes of the Nazi and the Soviet occupations, performed mass massacre, exiles, imprisonment in concentration camps. In the museum commemorations, evenings, concerts related with these events are constantly organized.
Occupations Museum was built in 1984 by Kaunas Fortress 9th Fort. That is an original structure of peculiar forms distinguishing by great metal gate, the author of which is Leonas Glinskis. The design of the museum building was developed by architects Vytautas Vielius and Gediminas Baravykas. In the same year, a monument of three sculpture groups of 32 meters height for the commemoration of fascism victims was unveiled. Its author is sculptor Alfonsas Ambraziūnas. Visitors will be able to see the monument on the way to Kaunas Fortress 9th Fort. The exhibition of Occupations museum familiarizes the visitors with painful facts of the history of Lithuanian nation, the fate of the people who resisted the policy performed by the Soviets and the Nazi.