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Hotel Viru Listening Room
Hotel Viru’s former listening room shows how Soviet security services could turn a guest’s private conversation into intelligence.
Hotel Viru combined accommodation for foreign visitors with KGB surveillance. Equipment in former technical rooms gives that work a material form: wiring, recording and staff occupied a system hidden from the guest. A single room cannot establish exactly who was monitored or when. The museum setting instead helps explain how an ordinary conversation could become information for the state, and how unseen observation undermined trust.
Practical information
Address: Viru väljak 4
The former KGB rooms at Viru väljak 4 are visited under museum arrangements. Check official tour times in advance.