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Change of work rules on Mondays and holidays

We would like to inform you that from December 24, 2024, the working system of the State Museum at Majdanek and its branches - the Sobibor Memorial Museum and the Belzec Memorial Museum - will be changed. The museum will be completely inaccessible to visitors (the main gate and side gates will remain closed) on all Mondays and the following holidays: January 1 (New Year's Day), January 6 (“Epiphany”), Easter, Corpus Christi, November 11 (National Independence Day), and December 24-31.

On November 1 (All Saints' Day) at the State Museum at Majdanek in Lublin, only the parking lot and the passage to the municipal cemetery from Tetmajera Street to Cmentarna Street will be open. All the Museum's buildings and its exhibitions will remain closed.

Changes in the visiting route and traffic

With regards to the Mausoleum renovation works, the visiting route as well as the pedestrian and vehicle traffic are changed. Detailed information here: https://www.majdanek.eu/en/news/zmiana_sciezki_zwiedzania_w_zwiazku_z_remontem_mauzoleum/1682

  • 30.01.2025

    Call for Papers | Trains of Death – Railway Transports to the German Death Camps. State of Knowledge and Research Postulates

    We invite historians, researchers, regionalists, and students, for our academic conference – “Trains of Death – Railway Transports to the German Death Camps. State of Knowledge and Research Postulates – that is going to take place at the Museum in Memorial in Sobibór on 8-10 September.

  • 13.01.2025

    “Mementos” Campaign Summary

    On our 80th jubilee last year we held the “Mementos” campaign, during which we appealed for donating the objects connected with Majdanek’s history to the museum collections. Thanks to your engagement they have been enriched with over 300 artefacts, photographs, and documents.

  • 24.01.2025

    Tomasz Kranz awarded by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

    On 26 January the director of the State Museum at Majdanek dr Tomasz Kranz was granted the National Leadership Award by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The American institution appreciated his long-time engagement in the Holocaust remembrance as well as the input in the field of education in Poland.

  • 08.01.2025

    2024 Summary

    It is time to draw up a summary of 2024. It was primarily marked by two important anniversaries: the 80th jubilee of the State Museum at Majdanek and the 20th anniversary of creating the Museum and Memorial in Bełżec. In July we recalled the moment when exactly 80 years passed from the final liquidation of KL Lublin.

  • 31.12.2024

    Tomasz Kranz appointed as the director of the Majdanek Museum

    We are pleased to announce that on December 30, 2024, Hanna Wróblewska, the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, appointed Tomasz Kranz as the Director of the State Museum at Majdanek. He was appointed for a 5-year-term through a competition prcedure.

  • 20.12.2024

    EDUCATION IN THE STATE MUSEUM AT MAJDANEK IN 2024

    In 2024, the employees of the Education Department of the State Museum at Majdanek organised and conducted over 120 diverse educational activities for Polish and foreign recipients. 4500 people took advantage of our educational offer by taking part in meetings aimed at promoting knowledge about the former concentration camp at Majdanek.

  • 28.11.2024

    Distinction in the KLIO Competition for the State Museum at Majdanek

    We are delighted to announce that our publication, "Maryla’s Diary: Life and Death in the Warsaw Ghetto", has been awarded a distinction in the editorial category during the 30th anniversary edition of the KLIO Awards. The winners were announced on 28 November 2024, during the opening ceremony of the Historical Book Fair in the Great Hall of the Royal Castle in Warsaw.

  • 07.11.2024

    PAWIAK – MAJDANEK – AUSCHWITZ – BOOK PROMOTION

    On 14 November 2024, at 5:00 PM, a promotion of the latest publication containing the memoirs of Bolesław Burski „Jasieńczyk”, a former prisoner of the Gestapo Pawiak prison in Warsaw, and later two German concentration camps: Majdanek and Auschwitz, will take place in the scholarly reading room of the Hieronim Łopaciński Provincial Public Library in Lublin.

  • 25.10.2024

    ANNIVERSARY BOOOK PREMIERES

    Scholarly and publishing endeavours are for the State Museum at Majdanek one of the most significant areas of activity. We could not miss commemorative publications for the 80th anniversary of the institution. They are now available in our bookstore.

  • 24.10.2024

    80 Years of the State Museum at Majdanek

    On 23 October 2024, at the Lublin Conference Centre, we celebrated the 80th anniversary of the State Museum at Majdanek. It was a spontaneous occasion for a meeting within the circle of museologists and friends of the Museum, reminding of the institution’s history, presentation of present-day activity as well as honouring the most deserving employees.

  • 08.10.2024

    “PAST IN THE MUSEUMS – MUSEUMS IN THE FUTURE” CONFERENCE

    On 23-24 October 2024 we are celebrating the 80th jubilee of the Museum. We are holding an event that will provide a forum for meeting with the representatives of various museums and institutions – especially the ones anchored in history.

  • 04.10.2024

    Documents and photographs of dr Henryk Wieliczański

    On the 80th jubilee of the State Museum at Majdanek, we once again appealed to the public, calling for donations of the mementos left by the camp survivors to the Museum collections. This request was addressed primarily to the descendants of the former prisoners, who might keep some documents, photographs, or various items related to the camp history in their family archives.

  • 11.09.2024

    Majdanek Victims Remembrance Sunday

    The Majdanek Victims Remembrance Sunday is held this weekend. The event organised under the Museum patronage is held by the St. Father Maksymilian Maria Kolbe Parish and the 32nd Majdanek Remembrance Primary School in Lublin.

  • 10.09.2024

    „So close and yet so far” – the connections between KL Lublin and the world of freedom

    The State Museum at Majdanek once again participates in the European Heritage Days. This year the participants of our project will have a special guided tour during which they will learn about the people, who aided the prisoners. The help provided from the world of freedom saved many lives of those imprisoned behind the barbed wire fences of the camp.

  • 22.07.2024

    “Do not let the phrase ‘Never Again!’ be just some empty words” – the 80th anniversary of the final liquidation of KL Lublin

    22 July 2024 was marked by the 80th anniversary of the final liquidation of the Majdanek German concentration camp. The former KL Lublin’s prisoners, representatives of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, the Diplomatic Corps, local authorities, the military, uniformed services, and various organisations dealing with remembrance of World War II – on that day they all gathered near the Column of Three Eagles.

  • 19.07.2024

    BOOK PREMIERE – ACCOUNT OF BOLESŁAW BURSKI

    The account of the former KL Lublin prisoner – Bolesław Burski “Jasieńczyk” have just premiered. The memoir written down in 1945–1948 under the title Pawiak–Majdanek–Auschwitz and is now released in print for the first time thanks to the cooperation between the State Museum at Majdanek and the Prószyński publishing house.

  • 28.05.2024

    80 YEARS OF THE STATE MUSEUM AT MAJDANEK

    The year 2024 is especially important to us as it is marked by important anniversaries – it has been 80 years since the final liquidation of the German concentration camp and the final evacuation transport of prisoners in July. At the turn of October and November 1944, on the other hand, the State Museum at Majdanek was established as the world’s first memorial connected with the history of World War II and the Holocaust.

  • 17.05.2024

    WE ARE COLLECTING MEMORABILIA RELATED TO THE KL LUBLIN

    The State Museum at Majdanek was founded 80 years ago. Since its inception, one of the main tasks of the institution has been to collect and preserve objects related to the history of the Majdanek concentration camp.

  • 16.05.2024

    Special issue of the Varia magazine on the 80th Jubilee of the State Museum at Majdanek

    In October 1944, just three months after the liquidation of the Majdanek German Nazi concentration camp, a Museum was established on its former grounds. It was the world’s first Memorial dedicated to the victims of World War II.

  • 06.05.2024

    MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL IN SOBIBÓR WITH A SPECIAL COMMENDATION IN THE EMYA 2024 CONTEST

    Museum and Memorial in Sobibór received a special commendation in the European Museum of the Year Award 2024 (EMYA) prestigious contest. The award ceremony gala was held on 4 May in Portimao, Portugal. 50 European museum were nominated including 5 candidates from Poland.

  • 01.05.2024

    MUSEUM IN ACTION. THE MUSEUM’S PUBLICATIONS AND EXHIBITIONS IN PRACTICE

    During another ”Museum in Action” seminar, we reflected on how to prepare the text for the editorial process and how to plan the works on creating an exhibition. The course aims to improve the skills of our staff and to pursue the goals forming the foundation of our institution more effectively.

  • 22.04.2024

    International Conference on the 20th Anniversary of the Museum and Memorial in Bełżec

    Nearly 15 speakers were invited to participate in the on-line conference "Museum exhibitions in the Holocaust memorials: from Bełżec to Sobibór" organized on June 4–5, 2024. It is dedicated to a broader context of influence and perception of exhibitions in the museums established on the former camp grounds. Register and take part in our event. It will be held in English, under honorary patronage of the National Institute of Museums.

  • 22.04.2024

    ‘BIO(TOPO)GRAPHIES. DISCOVERING THE LOST’ – THE FIRST EDITION OF THE RESEARCH PROJECT BY THE STUDENTS OF HIGH SCHOOL NO. 30 IN LUBLIN

    A group of students of Jan Twardowski High School No. 30 in Lublin have taken part in a three-year research project titled ‘Bio(topo)graphies. Discovering the Lost.’ The aim of the whole undertaking is to encourage young people to jointly seek out individual life stories of Jews from Lublin and their centuries-long history.

  • 17.04.2024

    HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY

    On 19 April the Holocaust Remembrance Day and Day for the Prevention of Crimes against Humanity, we held a discussion on the post-war fates of the Jews from Lublin. Earlier, we paid tribute to the Holocaust victims.

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