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On the last Wednesday of September (September 25) Kaunas Ninth Fort Museum will be closed (Museum clean-up day). We invite you to visit the museum on other days!

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Timetable of the Guided Tours at Weekends

Only general organised guided tours take place in Kaunas Ninth Fort Museum at weekends. Pre-booking is not possible: the person who purchased the ticket earlier acquires the priority to participate in the guided tour. The maximum number of participants in a tour is 25 people. A special ticket for a participant of an organised guided tour (11 Eur or with a discount – 6 Eur per person) will allow visitors to visit the museum expositions as well as join thematic or guided tours organized at certain times. TIMETABLE OF THE GUIDED TOURS* In English: 12:00 Overview guided tour THE NINTH FORT: FROM FORTIFICATION TO THE MUSEUM (120 min.) In Lithuanian: 11:00 Extended thematic guided tour THE DEFENSIVE WALL OF THE NINTH FORT: THE UNDERGROUND (70 min.) 13:00 Overview guided tour THE NINTH FORT: FROM FORTIFICATION TO THE MUSEUM (120 min.) 14:00 Extended thematic guided tour THE DEFENSIVE WALL OF THE NINTH FORT: THE UNDERGROUND (70 min.) 15:00 Extended thematic guided tour THE DEFENSIVE WALL OF THE NINTH FORT: THE UNDERGROUND (70 min.) *Except for the last Sunday of every month

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Transfer of the Museum’s Ticket Office

From August 20, 2024, the ticket office of Kaunas Ninth Fort Museum will be located not in the Ninth Fort, but in the nearby building of the memorial complex, the address of which is Žemaičių pl. 73. After the completion of the first stage of the renovation, a spacious information centre has been set up here, where you will be able to conveniently buy a visitor’s ticket, find out more about the services and choose a book or souvenir. When you arrive to the museum, please follow the information signs to the ticket office.

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Important Information for the Visitors

On the last Sunday of each month all visitors can visit the museum free of charge. Guided tours in English on the last Sunday of the month are not available. The free tickets must be collected on the day of the visit at the ticket office located at Žemaičių pl. 73. We would like to note that on the last Sunday of the month the exhibition “Bakhmut. The Faces of Genocide 1942 | 2022” will be closed. We invite you to see the exhibitions on other days.

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Free Admission to the Museum for Ukrainian Citizens

We invite Ukrainian citizens to visit the expositions of Kaunas Ninth Fort Museum and to participate in our guided tours free of charge. All you need to do is provide an identity document at the ticket office. Registration to the guided tours is available via phone +370 686 26243 or e-mail muziejus@9fortomuziejus.lt Relevant information: www.ltua.lt. Important contacts — Запрошуємо громадян України відвідати експозиції Каунаського музею IX форту та взяти участь в екскурсіях музеєм безкоштовно. Все, що потрібно для цього зробити – пред’явити своє посвідчення особи. Попередній запис на екскурсію проводиться за телефоном +370 686 26243 або ел. поштою muziejus@9fortomuziejus.lt Інформація для громадян України: www.ltua.lt. Важливі контакти — Приглашаем граждан Украины посетить экспозиции Каунасского музея IX форта и принять участие в экскурсиях по музею бесплатно. Всё, что необходимо для этого сделать, это в кассе предъявить свое удостоверение личности. Предварительная запись на экскурсии производится по телефону +370 686 26243 или по эл. почте muziejus@9fortomuziejus.lt Актуальная информация: www.ltua.lt. Важные контакты

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Temporary Exhibitions

BAKHMUT. THE FACES OF GENOCIDE 1942 | 2022

From August 23 to October 29, 2024The exhibition “Bakhmut. The Faces of Genocide 1942 | 2022”, organised by the National Historical Memorial Reserve “Babyn Yar”, will be on display at Kaunas Ninth Fort Museum from August 23 to October 29 this year. This is the first exhibition presented in the European Union by the “Babyn Yar”. The exhibition aims to draw parallels between the tragedy of the Holocaust in 1942, during which over 3000 innocent civilians, mostly Jews, were killed in Bakhmut, and the deliberate destruction of the city by russian occupiers in 2022-2023. This exhibition reveals the history of two genocides separated by eight decades, but both committed by repressive regimes: Nazi Germany and modern russia.Historical facts The exhibition displays documents and photographs from the collections of Bakhmut Museum of Local History, which provide a detailed chronology of the historical events and allow an assessment of the scale of the Nazi crimes of 1942. It includes unique archival material, memories of witnesses and documents that became important evidence in the Nuremberg Trials. On January 11, 1942, more than 3,000 Jews and other peoples were imprisoned in the basement of a former NKVD building in Bakhmut. They were held for ...

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ANIMITAS by Christian Boltanski

Christian Boltanski (b. 1944 Paris, France, d. 2021, Paris, France) Animitas (Kaunas), 2021 230 Japanese bells, Plexiglas, nylon Christian-Liberté Boltanski was born on September 6, 1944, two weeks after the liberation of France in World War II. During the war, his father, a Jew from Ukraine who later converted to Christianity, was hiding in the family apartment so as not to be found by the Nazis and French authorities. For over sixty years, the artist created works that offer meditations on fate, mourning and memory. Following his father’s death in 1987, Boltanski’s work increasingly focused on the Shoah (the Holocaust) as he incorporated the subjects of death and commemoration. Since this time, he also worked outside the museum in symbolic and charged places. When first approached for a commission to commemorate Kaunas 2022, Boltanski was drawn to significant sites associated to traumatic events and Jewish histories. The artist knew of the 900 French prisoners held at the Ninth Fort, who were imprisoned and executed alongside 30,000 other Jews from Lithuania, Austria, Poland, the Soviet Union and Germany. When we consider that his family lived in constant fear of his father being caught, this site also relates to the artist’s personal ...

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