Majdanek State Museum, Lublin

Name: Majdanek State Museum
Address: Droga Meczennikow Majdanka 67, Lublin, 20-325, Poland
Telephone: +48 81 710 28 33

#25 among attractions in Lublin

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The Majdanek State Museum is a memorial museum and education centre founded in the fall of 1944 on the grounds of the Nazi Germany Majdanek death camp located in Lublin, Poland. It was the first museum of its kind in the world, devoted entirely to the memory of atrocities committed in the network of concentration, slave-labor, and extermination camps and subcamps of KL Lublin during World War II. The museum performs several tasks including scholarly research into the Holocaust in Poland. It houses a permanent collection of rare artifacts, archival photographs, and testimony. ()

Alternative names: Established: 1944 (80 years ago)Visitors per year: 121.4 thous.Coordinates: 51°13'31"N, 22°36'23"E

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Droga Meczennikow Majdanka 67KosminekLublin 20-325 Poland

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+48 81 710 28 33

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