Majdanek State Museum

Majdanek State Museum
Państwowe Muzeum na Majdanku
One of the exhibits at the Majdanek Museum
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Established1944, confirmed by an act of the Polish parliament of 2 July 1947.[1]
LocationMajdanek, Poland
Coordinates51°07′54″N 22°21′21″E / 51.1318°N 22.35579°E / 51.1318; 22.35579
Visitors121,404 (2011) [2]
DirectorTomasz Kranz
Websitewww.majdanek.eu

The Majdanek State Museum (Polish: Państwowe Muzeum na Majdanku)[3] 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,[4] 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.[1][5]

  1. ^ a b "Regulamin organizacyjny Państwowego Muzeum na Majdanku". Dz. U. z 1947 r. nr 52, poz. 265. Biuletyn Informacji Publicznej (Bulletin of Public Information, Republic of Poland). 2006. Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved April 28, 2013.
  2. ^ "Statystyki". Frekwencja zwiedzających. Państwowe Muzeum na Majdanku. 2011. Retrieved 2013-04-28.
  3. ^ "Kalendarium". Powstanie Państwowego Muzeum (Creation of the Museum). Państwowe Muzeum na Majdanku. Archived from the original on 2011-02-13. Retrieved 2013-04-09.
  4. ^ "Majdanek State Museum". Lublin Sights. Lonely Planet. 2013. Retrieved 2013-04-29.
  5. ^ Weiner, Miriam; Ukrainian State Archives (in cooperation with); Moldovan State Archives (in cooperation with) (1999). "Chapter Six: Concentration Camp Archives" Jewish Roots in Ukraine and Moldova: Pages from the Past and Archival Inventories . Secaucus, NJ: Miriam Weiner Routes to Roots Foundation. ISBY 978-0-96-565081-6. OCLC 607423469.