KAUNAS 9 th FORT MUSEUM Museum director Jūratė

KAUNAS 9 th FORT MUSEUM Museum director Jūratė Zakaitė

2 History ® The Ninth fort was built in 1912. ® From 1924 - a division of Kaunas Hard Labour prison. ® NKVD prison in 1940 -1941. ® 1941 -1944 - a site of execution during the Nazi occupation. ® The Ninth Fort Museum was founded in 1958. ® In 1984 The Occupations Museum was opened and the monument in extermination site was constructed.

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12 Expositions ®Kaunas Fortress & Word War I ®The division of Hard Labour Prison ®The Ninth fort in 1940 -1941 ®The Kaunas Ghetto ®The Fates of the Prisoners ®The Escape of 64 Prisoners from the Ninth fort ®Chiune Sugihara – Rescuer of the Jewish people ®The Occupations and annexation of Lithuania by the Soviets, by the Nazi ant by the Soviets again.

13 Museum tourist services ®Excursions ®Educational programs ®Live historical lessons ®Occasions with the former deportees, prisoners of the ghettos and concentration camps ®Exhibitions to commemorate some of historical significance dates

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16 Kaunas Ninth Fort Museum ®Museums in Lithuania are separated according to their jurisdiction. ®Kaunas 9 th Fort Museum - Republic museum founded by Ministry of Culture.

17 Museums in Lithuania

18 Visitors in Republic museums (2012) Museum of the Geology of Lithuania Pedagogical Museum Samogitian Diocese Museum Vaclovas Intas National Stone Museum Kernavė Archeological Museum Theatre, Music and Film Museum Lithuanian Aviation Museum The Vilna Gaon Jewish State Museum Lithunian Museum of Etnocosmology Kaunas Ninth Fort Museum 34563 visitors Kaunas Tadas Ivanauskas Museum of Zoology Vytautas The Great War museum Maironis Lithuanian Literature Museum Open Air Museum of Lithuania Šiauliai "Aušra" museum Lithuanian Sea Museum Trakai History Museum 0 50000 100000 150000 200000 250000 300000 350000

19 Museum visitors (2012) Total: 42563 visitors Visitors by groups 7% Visitors during events 19% Schoolchildren by groups 31% Individual visitors 43%

20 Museum financing (2012) Total: 1. 864. 287 Lt ( ~540. 370 € ) 9% 16% 76% Budgeting Proseeds (from booking) EU structural funds

21 Expenditures (2012) Total: 1. 872. 079 Lt ( ~542. 370 € ) Museum values (exhibits) 6, 000 Lt Utility 101, 346 Lt Others 185, 862 Lt Renovation (by project) 251, 209 Lt Wages 1, 327, 662 Lt 0 Lt 500, 000 Lt 1, 500, 000 Lt

22 Financing from EU funds Project “Kaunas 9 th Fort Museum tourism services diversity development” Time period: 2011 -11 -30 – 2014 -08 -31 Renovation of building and installation of new exposition. 2. 462. 152 Lt (~ 713. 667 €)

KAUNAS 9 th FORT MUSEUM www. 9 fortomuziejus. lt Tel. : +370 37 377715 jurate. zakaite@9 fortomuziejus. lt