Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum

Local namePaństwowe Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau
LocationOświęcim, Poland

The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum is a museum on the site of the Auschwitz concentration camp in Oświęcim, Poland.

The site includes the main concentration camp at Auschwitz I and the remains of the concentration and extermination camp at Auschwitz II-Birkenau. Both were developed and run by Nazi Germany during its occupation of Poland in 1939–1945. The Polish government has preserved the site as a research centre and in memory of the 1.1 million people who died there, including 960,000 Jews, during World War II and the Holocaust. It became a World Heritage Site in 1979. Piotr Cywiński is the museum's director.

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Opening hours

A visitor may stay on the site of the Museum 90 minutes after the last entrance hour.

Closed on Easter Sunday, Jan 1, Dec 25.

Admission

An individual ticket for a foreign language guided tour of both camps costs 60/55 PLN.
Admission without a guide (when possible) to either camp is free.
The film at Auschwitz I costs 6/3 PLN.

More information and contact

Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz-Birkenau_State_Museum

Official website http://auschwitz.org/en/

Twitter https://twitter.com/AuschwitzMuseum

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/auschwitzmemorial/?eid=ARBYRn8QxWBDceGHYGJqBj8eaFwZooz9YpxRWsa8zCtEW-qihhYaF4Q36MyNiMJcLvyElGBrWa8hSgqj

Email reservation.office@auschwitz.org

Phone +48 338448099

Address Więźniów Oświęcimia 20, Gmina Oświęcim, 32-603 Poland

Coordinates 50°1'37.097" N 19°12'6.837" E

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