We would like to invite you to the autumn outdoor exhibition Eyes of the State Security in Kampa Park, which is subtitled Organisations, Members and Actions of the StB Surveillance Administration. The main themes of the exhibition are the surveillance units of the State Security Service and photographs of historical personalities, important events and places taken by its employees during the communist regime. For example, the surveillance actions of the secret police against Václav Havel, Pavel Kohout, Jan Patoček, František Cardinal Tomášek, František Kriegl and Western diplomats are presented. The structures of the Surveillance Administration, its staff, chiefs and collaborators are also described. The service career of Antonín Kavan, who headed the surveillance service for several decades, is presented. Attention is also paid to the intelligence technology used by the StB Surveillance Administration. The secret locations from which the secret police monitored selected objects are described.
The plenary exhibition was jointly prepared by the Museum of the Memory of the 20th Century and Museum Kampa in cooperation with the Security Forces Archive and Prague City Tourism. The exhibition will be on view from 12 September to 6 December 2023 at Kampa. One exhibition panel has also been placed in the nearby tower of St. Nicholas Church, where the StB observation post codenamed "Kajka" was located.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a bilingual catalogue, which will be published at the end of September 2023 and will be available in the distribution network of Kosmas.cz. Educational materials have also been prepared for project lessons in social science subjects at secondary school.
