On October 16, the Days of Majdanek start at the Museum. It will be the first event organized in the modernized Visitor Service Centre. This year, visitors will have an opportunity to see the museum collections and archives, which are not usually available to guests, as well as to become familiar with the history of the former German concentration camp and activity of the Museum.

View photos


For the second time, the State Museum at Majdanek has been rewarded with the Travellers’ Choice Attractions Award for the best tourist attraction of Lublin. The Award is given by the users of TripAdvisor® – the world’s largest travel sites.

View photos


Modernization works in the Visitor Service Centre have finished. Apart from that a new welcoming board has been erected at the entrance to the Museum. The investments provide new possibilities for the Museum educational and popularizing practice.

The State Museum at Majdanek presents the results of the latest research concerning the history of the German death camp in Sobibór. This study was carried out by Robert Kuwałek, a researcher working for our institution who suddenly died in 2014. In the study he tried to determine the balance of camp victims. At the end of his last research work there is an important conclusion to find which grows in importance in the light of finding the gas chamber foundations:

On October 3, due toworks related with the constructionofnewwater supply system,visitors can only use the car park located near the entrance gate to the Museum.

We are sorry for any inconvenience.

On October 16, the Days of Majdanek start at the Museum. It will be the first event organized in the modernized Visitor Service Centre. This year, visitors will have an opportunity to see the museum collections and archives, which are not usually available to guests, as well as to become familiar with the history of the former German concentration camp and activity of the Museum.

View photos


A group of young people from Schiller’s Junior High School in Münster, which came to Lublin to take part in the school exchange with Staszic High School No. 1., visited the State Museum at Majdanek. The programme of educational activities included guided tour through the grounds of the former camp and visiting the outdoor exhibition as well as the exhibition "The Prisoners of Majdanek."

On October 4,when Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur isobserved, the permament historicalexhibition and the grounds of the Museum - Memorial Site in Bełżec are closed.

On October 3, due toworks related with the constructionofnewwater supply system,visitors can only use the car park located near the entrance gate to the Museum.

We are sorry for any inconvenience.

Once again the State Museum at Majdanek takes part in the Lublin Science Festival. This year it is for the 9th time. The institution has prepared five projects for nearly 1800 participants, which will be carried out from 21 to 25 September.

View photos


The publication containing proceedings from the Polish-German scientific conference co-organised by the State Museum at Majdanek was issued this August. It was devoted to the culture of remembrance and work at museums, both commemorating the victims of the Nazism.

          Due to works related with the construction of new water supply system, the Museum will be closed at the weekend, September 27 and 28.

         We are sorry for any inconvenience.

View photos


Location of the building housing the gas chambers has been found during archaeological research conducted on the grounds of the former German death camp in Sobibór. The chambers were blown up in 1943 when the Sobibór camp was liquidated. Numerous fragments of their foundations were uncovered.Tomasz Kranz, director of the Museum at Majdanek, stressed that uncovering the remnants of the Sobibór gas chambers was a historic event: “The whole former camp is one huge crime scene, but of the special documentary value are places related directly to the extermination: road which Jews covered to gas chambers (the so called hosepipe – “Schlauch”), extermination site, and mass graves with ashes of the victims.”

View photos



A presentation of the temporary exhibition prepared by the employees of the Museum – Memorial Site in Bełżec took place on September 11, 2014, in Książnica Zamojska [Zamość Library]. The exhibition was accompanied by a meeting promoting a new museum publication – the album “Every Victim Has a Name” by Ewa Koper.

Once again the State Museum at Majdanek takes part in the Lublin Science Festival. This year it is for the 9th time. The institution has prepared five projects for nearly 1800 participants, which will be carried out from 21 to 25 September.

This year their volunteering programme completed Pascal Merten. We are extremely grateful for his presence and the successful cooperation. A few reflections about his stay in Lublin.

Temporary restrictions concerning the pedestrian and vehicle traffic over the area of the State Museum at Majdanek are introduced in relation to the construction works.

Please be aware that due to modernization and restoration works at our Museum and its branches in Bełżec and Sobibór, there will be following access restrictions for visitors:

- at the Museum at Majdanek: earthworks connected with the modernization of water supply systems are being conducted, therefore, there will be temporary access restrictions on the whole area of the Museum – currently, part of the car park next to the entrance to the exhibition is being closed, so please use the two other car parks,

- at the Museum – Memorial Site in Bełżec: due to flooring restoration works, the access to the area of the Monument (Ohel Niche and Crevasse) will be restricted in September.

We are sorry for any inconvenience it may cause.

On July 22, 1944, the concentration camp at Majdanek was eventually liquidated. “70 years have passed since these events. It is a lot of time. Fortunately, those who can bear a testimony to what happened in the nearby prisoner fields and execution ditches are still alive. But the witnesses can also ask us if their voice goes from generation to generation,” said director Tomasz Kranz.

View photos


July 22, 2014, marks the 70th anniversary of the liquidation of the concentration camp at Majdanek. Prepared for this occasion, the exhibition evokes the memory of its prisoners. The individual life stories of the people who were victims of the Nazi persecution and extermination policies make up the history of the Majdanek camp.

View photos


The new temporary museum exhibition “The Prisoners of Majdanek” will be opened for visitors from July 22. However, the representatives of the media in Lublin have already had an opportunity to become acquainted with the exhibition.

View photos


The educational seminar entitled "The history and remembrance"took place between July 14and 18 at theState Museum at Majdanek. The members of the Association tookpart in it. The main objectives of the seminar were to make volunteers from Germany familiar with the history ofthe German occupation in the Lublin District and to discuss the senseof commemoration and remembering the victims of the Nazi occupation for people nowadays.

The State Museum at Majdanek invites to the commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the camp liquidation It starts on July 22 at 1 p.m. The agenda includes opening of a new exhibition “The Prisoners of Majdanek.” This year’s ceremony takes place at the square in front of the Mausoleum.

View photos


Between June 16 and 18, 2014, students from the Junior High School No. 24 in Lublin and the Georg Büchner Junior High School in Darmstadt participated in the intercultural workshops on the history of the German occupation in the Lublin region and particularly on the fates of prisoners of the concentration camp KL Lublin. The programme in the Museum at Majdanek was preceded by classes which aimed at acquainting students with each other and integrating the participants of the project.