In Kaunas, Lithuania’s second largest city, lies the Antanas Zmuidzinavicius museum. Antanas Zmuidzinavicius was a famous 20th century Lithuanian painter who collected a lot of spooky folk art. This museum, which is in his old apartment in a stoneclad Soviet block, holds 3,000 statues, artefacts and likenesses of Satan. It’s kind of corny but we love things with the devil on them so we sent our Baltic contact Povi over to Kaunas to have a look around the place and check in with the museum’s director, Jurgita Rimkute.

Vice: These statues are fucking great. Is the job any good?
Jurgita Rimkute: I’ve been working
here for a bit more than two years,
the staff and I get along really well,
it is all pretty normal. I do like it
here, and it is not because of the
devils. We’re not the Devil
Museum, by the way, we’re a
Museum of Devils.

Hmm, OK. What type of music do
you play in here? Any black metal?
No. We only play classical music.
I am not sure rock music would
be appropriate.

I disagree, but fine. Do you get
negative comments from locals?
The locals are very supportive and
very proud of the museum. If you
asked anyone in the town what’s
the most interesting place in
Kaunas worth visiting, most of
them would say the Museum of
Devils. We even have visits from
local church people and their
guests. They come here trying to
get to know the devil better—so
they can battle him better.

Are there any scary stories about
the museum?
There have been a few times when
cleaning ladies freaked out. One
time they found a sealed packet
squeezed in the gap between the
front doors, which they thought
was a bomb. And we do have some
strange regulars who visit the
museum. One lady visits us the
same time and day every year. We
think she’s from the USA, but we’re
not sure.

There must be more than that.
There was a big deal made about
light bulbs exploding above one
of the statues. People freaked out
and scrapped all the lights—but
it turned out to be a power
problem, because we’re sharing
the same electricity line with the
hospital next door. Whenever
they used their equipment, our
lights blew.

Do any of you feel a Satanic
presence in the museum?
There is a very weird feeling near
the place where the “Hitler and
Stalin” sculpture is. We were told
by a visiting parapsychologist that
this particular one has the worst
“energy” of all the statues. Yet
strangely it is also the most
popular with visitors.

Do you believe in the devil?
Yes and no. I don’t think I believe in
a devil like these ones at the
museum, but at the end of the day I
do believe in God, so I am supposed
to believe in the devil as well.

Yeah, I guess that’s the deal. What
about the guy who collected all
these freaky statues?

Antanas Zmuidzinavicius started
collecting the devils, and his goal
was to collect 169 figures, but now
we have more than 3,000 here.

POVILAS UTOVKA AND CASKA HEMELRYK