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Kaunas Division

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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