The KGB Espionage Museum in New York (USA) will be closed forever. This is reported by The New York Times, referring to the founder of the museum, the Lithuanian collector Julius Urbaitis.
According to Urbaitis, the museum is being closed due to the situation that has developed as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. The items that make up the exposition of the institution will be sold out. “It was a difficult decision,” he said.
It is noted that the museum was opened less than two years ago, and more than 3.5 thousand exhibits of the Soviet era were exhibited there. Among them – a pistol in the form of a tube of lipstick, a table lamp that allegedly belonged to Joseph Stalin, a camera mounted in a purse, a steel prison door, listening equipment and radio transmitters disguised as packs of cigarettes.
At the same time, it is emphasized that Urbaitis and his daughter Agne are only curators of the museum, and its real owners preferred to remain anonymous.
