1. Žmuidzinavičius Museum, commonly known as the Devils' Museum in Kaunas

2-3. This bizarre museum owes its existence to the eccentric Antanas Žmuidzinavičius (1876-1966) who collected in his life over 2,000 representations of devils from all over the world. When the museum opened in 1966, it housed 260 statues he had obsessively collected against the Soviet law, which prohibited any religious artefacts.

4-5. On  three floors, there is a stunning display of devils in all shapes, sizes, colours and materials from all corners of the globe. Any visitors from foreign lands can bring their own native devil art to add to this huge collection.

6-7.  I had never seen such a variety of devils all together! It was very unusual and unfamiliar to me. At the beginning I felt a little bit uncomforting about being  with 2000 devils...but luckly I was not alone but with my marvellous Comenius group!

Morover unlike the traditional  view of Satan as a potent source of terror, or of demons as the powerful representatives of evil, I realized that in other countries the devil can be represented as mortal, weak, frail and operating  on the same level as men sometimes:  if  we are clever we can beat him!

Some devils were really amusing, like jokers, and  humorous rather than sinister!

I enjoyed discovering the different faces of the devil!!!!

                             Patrizia Coppola