The partial renovation of the permanent exhibition of the KGB Cell Museum in Tartu, which has been prepared for some time, has come to an end and from 6 December the permanent exhibition will be open to visitors again.
Three former pre-trial detention cells have been renovated. The KGB Cell Museum’s permanent exhibition offers an insight into Estonia’s post-war freedom struggle, the crimes of the communist regime and the living conditions in pre-trial prison. The museum is located on Riga Hill in Tartu, where the NKVD/KGB operated there in the 1940s and 1950s.
The curators of the updated permanent exhibition are film artist Katrin Sipelgas and film director and producer Jaak Kilmi, and in the museum’s interrogation room you can sit face to face with the interrogator created by animator Priit Tender.
In the new model room you will be able to hear charges laid under the infamous section 58 and see the truth about the victims of the charges. In the room dedicated to the Gulag prison network you can relive the sensations before the arrest and listen to songs from Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s “Gulag Archipelago” and the journey of his creation in Estonia, right near Tartu.
2023-12-03 13:08:00
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