This December, a new museum will be opening in the Chelsea area of New York City.
Known as the KGB Spy Museum, it claims to be the only museum in the world focused solely on espionage operations carried out by the KGB. The museum exhibition, much of which is only now being made public, presents a never-before-seen collection of items covering the activities of prominent KGB agents and revealing the strategies and methods that underlay many of history’s top secret espionage operations.
A large number of unique items will be on display.
The collection is the labor of Julius Urbaitis, 55, and his daughter Agne Urbaityte, 29, from Kaunas, Lithuania, who’ve spent the better part of the last decade amassing objects that were used in Soviet spycraft.
“You can touch, see and you can understand people and how they had to be really creative in that period to spy and how that technology was more high-tech than we imagine,” said Urbaityte, who teamed up with her father to run the museum.
The KGB Spy Museum is an offshoot of a similar museum based in a Lithuanian nuclear bunker that Urbaityte’s father founded in 2014.
Agne Urbaityte in the KGB Spy Museum’s sister location at a nuclear bunker in Kaunas, Lithuania.
The website for the new museum is KGBSpyMuseum.org. Tickets are available online or at the door for $28 for adults or $20 for children, students, and seniors.
Address of the museum:
245 West 14th Street
New York, NY 10011
Contact info:
917-388-2332
info@kgbspymuseum.com