Collections - Kauno IX forto muziejus

Press Collection

The press collection, which began in 1958, contains various types of museum objects: documents, letters, periodicals, books, and other printed materials (maps, posters, leaflets, postcards, etc.). The collection’s museum objects can be divided into several main themes and periods. The realities of Kaunas Hard Labour Prison branch (which operated in Kaunas Ninth Fort in 1924-1940) are recalled by the letters of Janina Čižinauskaitė, which are preserved in the museum. In 2007, they were recognised as a documentary heritage object of national importance and included in the Lithuanian National Register of the UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. The theme of deportations is most characteristically represented by handmade postcards and the personal belongings of resistance fighter Romas Kalanta (his birth certificate, school notebooks, etc.).In 1940-1941, Kaunas Ninth Fort was a transfer point for the NKVD prisoners (the museum holds letters written from Stutthof concentration camp).

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Collection of Photographs and Negatives

The museum’s collection of photographs and negatives contains more than 30,000 photographs, negatives and photo albums. The objects of this collection is organised the following: the history of the First World War and Kaunas Fortress, the history of the Nazi occupation, the history of the Soviet occupations, the history of the restoration of statehood and the history of Kaunas Ninth Fort Museum. The collection of photographs from the places of exile and imprisonment in Siberia is particularly rich: they account for approximately 29% (or more than 9,000) of the museum’s collection. The photographs record the life of exiles, their everyday life, work, leisure time and traditions.

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Collection of Objects Values

The collection of museum objects consists of textiles, metal, wood and leather goods, paintings, sculptures, graphic works and memorial objects of former political prisoners, exiles and Soviet activists imprisoned in Kaunas Ninth Fort prison between the world wars, as well as museum objects of phaleristics and numismatics. The museum’s collections contain uniforms and equipment of the Russian Empire from WWI, Kaiser’s Germany army, Soviet army soldiers and officers and the uniforms of retired Lithuanian Army officers. The Museum’s collections include an important part of artefacts found during archaeological research works in the 1960s and 1970s in the mass murder field of Kaunas Ninth Fort.

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