On 25 January 2017, the celebration of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day took place at the Museum – Memorial Site in Bełżec.

A report on the activities of the State Museum at Majdanek in 2016 has already been published. It includes the most important events, completed projects and information on the growing number of visitors.

In 2016, number of people who visited the State Museum at Majdanek increased again. Nearly a half of 213,237 visitors to the Museum and its branches came from abroad (93 227 people).

For the second time, the State Museum at Majdanek participated successfully in the programme “Accessible culture” of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. This year, about 2,500 students of intermediate and high schools from whole Poland took part in free museum classes organized by the State Museum at Majdanek and the Museum – Memorial Site in Bełżec. The number of participants almost doubled when compared with 2015.

On 7 December 2016, a book launch of "Niemiecki obóz zagłady w Bełżcu. Zarys historii" took place in the Tomaszów Lubelski Branch of Pedagogic Library in Zamość.

On 12 September, Minister of the Interior and Administration Mariusz Błaszczak visited the Museum - Memorial Site in Bełżec as part of his stay in the Lublin Region.

On 30 August 2016 in the Social Welfare Home for Veterans in Biłgoraj, a lecture combined with a multimedia presentation “Holocaust Survivors from the Bełżec camp”. Participants to the meeting were made familiar with the history of operating of the death camp in Bełżec. The lecture included a presentation of the profiles of survivors – Rudolf Reder, Chaim Hirszman, as well as a number of other people whose post-war fates are unknown.

On 25 August, the Museum in Bełżec hosted educators from France, who attended Summer University workshops, organised by the Parisian Mémorial de la Shoah.

On 26 August, the Museum – Memorial Site in Bełżec hosted educators from Ukraine, who arrived in the course of their annual study visit organised by the Ukrainian Centre for Holocaust Studies in Kiev.

On July 14, participants of the World Youth Day in the Diocese of Zamość-Lubaczów visited the Museum – Memorial Site in Bełżec. Pilgrims from Zhovkva and Lviv in Ukraine have become acquainted with the history of the German death camp in Bełżec, visited a historical exhibition and the grounds of the commemoration.

On 5-6 July 2016 Museum–Memorial Site in Bełżec and the State Museum at Majdanek hosted a group of historians, teachers, educators and employees of universities from different countries – the participants of the International Summer Academy "Auschwitz – History, Memory and Education" organized by the The International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust.

On June 29, 2016 , the Museum in Belzec hosted participants of the Summer School "Memory – Place – Presence ", organized by the Grodzka Gate – NN Theatre Centre.

The Lublin region has a long museological tradition dating back to the beginning of the 19th century, when the Temple of Sibyl was built in Puławy by the Czartoryski family. Today, there are 48 museums and museum branches in the region visited by over one million people a year. The role of these institutions in the contemporary tourism in the Lublin region was discussed by the participants to the panel debate organized by the Museum at Majdanek.

The Museum – Memorial Site in Bełżec carries out a programme by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage – "Kultura Dostępna" [Available Culture].Within its framework free museum lessons are provided.

A several years’ cooperation between the Museum – Memorial Site in Bełżec with the Jan Zamoyski High School No. 1 in Zamość resulted in the project carried out on April 22. A part of the project are annual interactive workshops titled "History and Holocaust of Jews in Zamość" commemorating the first Jewish deportation from Zamość to the death camp in Bełżec (April 2016).

At the end of March and the beginning of April 2016, the students from of the Righteous among Nations Public Junior High School in Bełżec attended the organizational meetings dedicated to the project aimed at presenting the history of Bełżec from the interwar period to the present day. The project will take a year.

As part of the observances of the Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Museum - Memorial Site in Bełżec organized a meeting with the students of the University of the Third Age from Tomaszów Lubelski.

On March 24, the State Museum at Majdanek opened a new open-air exhibition commemorating the 75th anniversary of the establishment of the ghetto in Lublin. During the opening of the exposition “‘Districts of Extermination. Ghettos for Jews in German-occupied Lublin,” there were a lecture, photography display and screening of archival videos.

On the 74th anniversary of the first deportations to the camp, on March 17, 2016, celebrations commemorating the victims of the Holocaust took place at the Museum – Memorial Site in Bełżec.

The State Museum at Majdanek and Association Bildungswerk Stanislaw Hantz e.V. from Germany have signed an agreement on funding work related to drawing up conservation documentation of the buildings used during World War II by the commandant office of the German Nazi death camp in Bełżec.

On 3 March 2016, a 90-person group of 90 young Israelis youths visited the Museum – the Place of MemoryMemorial Site in Bełżec. One of Among the visitors, there was a granddaughter of Irena Sznycer, who had been rescued in Bełżec during the German occupation in Bełżec.

A report on the activities of the State Museum at Majdanek and its branches in 2015 has already been published. It includes information about, among other things, the most important events, conservation and educational projects.

Debates, book promotions and educational projects. 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 2016. In the centre of the events there is an international conference on the project for building a museum and new commemoration on the grounds of the former death camp in Sobibór.

Interest in the State Museum at Majdanek has increased among visitors. In 2015, the institution noted a record-breaking attendance – 207 893 people took advantage of the Museum’s offer. It is the highest rate since 1990.