On 19 February, Rolf Nikel, the Ambassador of Federal Republic of Germany in the Republic of Poland, visited the Museum – Memorial Site in Bełżec.

On 9 February 2018 the youth from Italy visited the Museum – Memorial Site in Bełżec.

At the Museum – Memorial Site in Bełżec, educational classes for youth on the extermination of Galician Jews were organised, as part of the 10th celebrations of the Holocaust Remembrance Day in Podkarpackie Voivodeship.

The number of people who visited the State Museum at Majdanek in the last five years increased by nearly 50%. In 2017, 239,149 people came to the institution.

The State Museum at Majdanek took part in the “Accessible Culture” programme of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage for the third time. This year, 101 groups of primary and secondary school students from all over Poland participated in the free museum lessons organized by the Majdanek Museum and Memorial Site in Bełżec.

The exhibition “Res non humana – an inhuman thing. Nazi occupation of the Zamość region between 1939-1944” presented on 7-30 of November 2017 in the reading room of the Pedagogical Library in Tomaszów Lubelski was accompanied by educational classes organized for the youth.

On 26 October 2017, the ceremony commemorating Roma and Sinti, the victims of German Nazi labour camp that operated in 1940, took place in Bełżec.

On October 2 the temporary exhibition “Res non humana – inhuman thing. The German occupation of the Zamość Region 1939-1944” prepared by the Museum – Memorial Site in Bełżec was made available for the visitors of the Tomaszów Lubelski Cultural Center.

Articles by historians, art historians, culture experts, sociologists and museum pedagogues from Poland, Germany and Austria are included in the newest publication issued by the State Museum at Majdanek.

On 18 August, a group of girls scouts cleaned the memorial to Roma and Sinti who died or were murdered in the labour camp in Bełżec in 1940. They took also part in educational classes organized by the Museum - Memorial Site in Bełżec.

On 24–27 July 2017 the State Museum at Majdanek together with The House of the Wannsee Conference organized a workshop for teachers from Polish and German schools. The teachers were presented with methods and forms of out-of-school education used at the State Museum at Majdanek that allowed them for better preparation of their students for visits at the post-camp memorial sites and development of their own methods of work during regular lessons.

On July 7, 2017, in the Memorial and Museum in Bełżec, a study trip was held for German youth from the Albertus-Magnus-Gymnasium in Bensberg.

Marking the 13th anniversary of the opening of the Museum – Memorial Site in Bełżec (June 3, 2004), the students of the School Complex in Łukawica took part in the educational workshops.

A vernissage of the temporary exhibition entitled “To understand a human. Bełżec 1918–2017” took place on June 7 in the screening room of the Museum – Memorial Site in Bełżec.

Students of the School Complex No. 4 in Zamość participated in a workcamp that took place on 22 May at the Museum – Memorial Site in Bełżec.

On 20 May, free guided tours of the historical exhibition and memorial site took place as part of the celebrations of the International Museum Day. The visitors also listened to the lecture “The extermination of Jews in the General Government. ‘Aktion Reinhardt’ camps” in the education hall.

One of the important tendencies in the development of museums is aspirations to create an imagination-stirring message and to trigger an interaction between visitors and museum exhibitions. The key question appears to be definifion of a 'museum experience' as well as its make-up. The participants of a panel debate organised by the Museum at Majdanek will discuss this issue, among many other thing. The debate takes place on May 18 at 12.00.

“Zagłada Żydów w Generalnym Gubernatorstwie. Zarys problematyki” constitutes a synthetic description of the Holocaust carried out by the Germans in the years 1942-1943 within the framework of the so called “Aktion Reinhardt.” The newest book by prof. Dariusz Libionka published by the State Museum at Majdanek is earmarked for a wide readership.

On 17 April 2017, the Żonkile project was completed within the International Holocaust Remembrence Day marking the 74thanniversary of the outbreak of the Uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto. The project was organised by the Tomaszów Lubelski Branch of the Pedagogical Library in Zamość, in cooperation with the Museum – Memorial Site in Bełżec. The participants of the project were students of the B. Głowacki’s School Complex no. 1 in Tomaszów Lubelski.

On March 20, 2017, the first seminar "History-Education-Memory" took place in the Museum - Memorial Site in Bełżec.

75 years ago, on March 17, 1942, the first transports of Jews deported from the Lublin ghetto and Lvov arrived to the death camp in Bełżec. These deportations were the beginning of “Aktion Reinhardt.” About 2 million victims of this genocidal operation were commemorated at the Museum – Memorial Site in Bełżec.

On March 15, 2017, a group of students with their history professor John C. Swanson from the University of Tennessee in Chattanooga took part in a study tour to Izbica, Zamość and the Museum – Memorial Site in Bełżec.

Commemorating ceremonies, exhibitions, publications, educational projects and discussions by historians are among the events planned by the Museum as part of the 75th anniversary of “Aktion Reinhardt.” They will be held between March 16, 2017, and November 3, 2018. In this period we will regularly publish on our website (in section “History”) materials on history of the extermination of Jews in the General Government in 1942–1943.

Exhibitions, book promotions, conferences and meetings. More than a dozen events aimed at, among others, people with passion for history, academics, students and teachers will be held in the State Museum at Majdanek in 2017.