Visitors Services Section

We offer several different ways for school groups, organized tour groups, pilgrims, study groups, and individual visitors to become familiar with the history of the concentration camp. Each variant includes tours of Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II-Birkenau, conducted by a licensed Museum guide.*

General tours (up to three-and-a-half hours):

  • the permanent exhibition at Auschwitz I Main Camp and the site of the Main Camp;
  • the most important remaining camp objects at Birkenau : the site of the camp, residential barracks, the unloading ramp , the ruins of gas chambers and crematoria II and III;

One-day study tours (approximately six hours):

  • general tour of the site of the Auschwitz I Main Camp supplemented by special emphasis on the elements of the permanent exhibition devoted to the destruction of the Jews (Block No. 27) and the Poles (Block No. 15);
  • general tour of the site of the Birkenau camp supplemented by special emphasis on selected objects associated with the mass destruction of the Jews (the ruins of gas chambers and crematoria IV and V, "Kanada," the "Sauna" building, or Bunker No. 2)

Two-day study tours** (total duration of tours approximately 8 hours):

  • first day: specialized (study) tour of the permanent exhibition in Auschwitz I and the site of the Main Camp ;
  • second day: survey of living conditions in Birkenau Concentration Camp (barracks, washrooms, latrines), survey of selected sites associated with the mass destruction of the Jews in Birkenau (the unloading ramp , the ruins of gas chambers and crematoria IV and V, "Kanada," the "Sauna" building, or Bunker No. 2)

* A fee is charged for guide services.
** Organizers should make arrangements for lodging.

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