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The
Museum of the Lithuanian Association of International Police Forces,
Kaunas Division
Contacts
Address: Gedimino g. 8, Kaunas.
Tel.: +370 686 08 017.
Information for Visitor
Opening hours:
Monday to Friday 8–17.
Collection
Historical materials about the Lithuania and Kaunas police forces are
presented.
Exposition
The expositions feature police uniforms from different countries as well as
additional accessories (caps, hats, helmets, etc); (straitjacket strait
chair?), prisoners’ hand-devised tools, counterfeit money, empty contraband
bottles of “vodka”; newspapers, documents, police costumes used for cultural
events and parades, awards for sporting competitions including Final Cups,
medals, diplomas and photographs; prisoners’ innovative inventions such as a
syringe hidden in a piece of soap, a pocket-knife enclosed in a tube of
toothpaste, and an awl wound inside of a shoestring. The major part of the
exhibition consists of police work tools including old telephones, antique
sticks for traffic regulation, the first radio sets, etc.
In the inner yard one can currently see obsolete means of transportation for
policemen: a motorcycle “Ural” (1978), and automobiles “Gaz”, “Barkas”, “Uaz”,
“Vaz”, and “Raf” made between 1986 and 1992.
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