State Museum at Majdanek

State Museum at Majdanek - German Nazi Concentration and Death Camp (1941-1944) - a martyrdom museum established in 1944 on the site of the former Nazi concentration camp KL Lublin. It is an institution reporting directly to the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. The museum conducts exhibition, educational and scientific activities. Since 2004, a branch of the PMM has been the Museum - Memorial Site in Bełżec, and since 2012 - the Museum of the Former Death Camp in Sobibór. The museum is organized on a part of the former camp (about 90 ha). Among its most important monuments is the partly preserved utility part, field III of the prisoner camp, bathhouse buildings with gas chambers, buildings of the "new" and "old" crematorium. The area of the memorial site also includes the Monument to Struggle and Martyrdom at Majdanek by Wiktor Tołkin. The post-camp archives and collection of museum exhibits are particularly rich. On the premises of the Museum, a permanent main exhibition is installed and temporary exhibitions are organized. From June 29, 2018, the full name of the institution is “The State Museum at Majdanek. German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp (1941-1944). On the 25th anniversary of the liberation of Majdanek, a monumental monument dedicated to the victims of Nazism, designed by arch. Wiktor Tołkin. The monument consists of two main parts: a gate-monument and a large mausoleum containing human ashes from the camp grounds. The museum also takes care of a large archive remaining from the SS administration and a collection of museum objects. On July 23, 1999, the artistic installation "Shrine" by Tadeusz Myslowski was opened in barracks 47. The installation is a tribute to the nameless victims of Majdanek. It consists of sculptural, graphic and verbal-musical elements. The central element is a spatial composition of spherical solids made of barbed wire. The whole is closed with a graphic composition referring to the iconostasis. In front of it is the symbolic "Book of Hourglasses" with the names of the 52 nationalities of the camp prisoners. The whole is complemented by music composed by Zbigniew Bargielski, intertwined with the sound of prayers in Hebrew, Old Church and Polish. #poland #museum