A museum dedicated to the victims of Soviet-era repression has opened in Kazakhstan’s former KGB headquarters in Almaty, reports Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

The museum, opened by the Kazakh Association of Repressed People and the culmination of a more than 10-year dream, occupies one floor of the building, exhibiting cells where prisoners were held and tortured. Also on display are pictures of those arrested and documents ordering their execution.

It is reported that the museum has so far mostly attracted older people but there are hopes that the younger generation will also take an interest.

The Almaty museum is not the first to be established in a KGB building, that in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, being turned into a Genocide and Resistance Center in 1992. In Uzbekistan, the Museum of the Victims of Repression was opened in 2001.