The State Museum at Majdanek successfully took part in the programme by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage called “Available Culture.” The main aim of the programme, which was very popular with schools, was to financially support participation of various social groups, including young people from small towns, in the cultural life of the country. Over 1100 students of lower high schools and high schools took part in gratuitous lessons.

Participants in the projects carried out as part of the “Available Culture” programme learned history of the former concentration camp at Majdanek by means of unconventional methods. Apart from visiting the grounds of the former camp and historical exhibitions, they actively worked with source materials, such as documents, photographs and video recordings of accounts by witnesses to history. It facilitated perception of past events and motivated young people to engage in discovering history.

Students and teachers taking part in the project assessed their stay at the State Museum at Majdanek as a very interesting form of encountering history and a possibility to reflect on the meaning of commemorating the Second World War in the modern world.