The museum opened in the Chelsea and Greenwich Village neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City on January 17, 2019, and featured the world's largest collection of KGB-specific spy equipment.

The museum closed in fall 2020 due to the impact of COVID-19 and its contents were auctioned.

[2] The museum in Manhattan was founded in 2019 by Lithuanian father and daughter team Julius Urbaitis and Agne Urbaityte.

The collection began under private ownership by Mr. Urbaitis in Lithuania where their first museum opened in an old KGB bunker.

[3] The majority of the collection wasbrought to the United States and was available for public view for the first time.