The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum is a museum on the site of the Auschwitz concentration camp in Oświęcim, Poland.
The site includes the main concentration camp at Auschwitz I and the remains of the concentration and extermination camp at Auschwitz II-Birkenau. Both were developed and run by Nazi Germany during its occupation of Poland in 1939–1945. The Polish government has preserved the site as a research centre and in memory of the 1.1 million people who died there, including 960,000 Jews, during World War II and the Holocaust. It became a World Heritage Site in 1979. Piotr Cywiński is the museum's director.
A visitor may stay on the site of the Museum 90 minutes after the last entrance hour.
Closed on Easter Sunday, Jan 1, Dec 25.
An individual ticket for a foreign language guided tour of both camps costs 60/55 PLN.
Admission without a guide (when possible) to either camp is free.
The film at Auschwitz I costs 6/3 PLN.
Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz-Birkenau_State_Museum
Official website http://auschwitz.org/en/
Twitter https://twitter.com/AuschwitzMuseum
Email reservation.office@auschwitz.org
Phone +48 338448099
Address Więźniów Oświęcimia 20, Gmina Oświęcim, 32-603 Poland
Coordinates 50°1'37.097" N 19°12'6.837" E
