Majdanek State Museum
Państwowe Muzeum na Majdanku | |
One of the exhibits at the Majdanek Museum | |
| Established | 1944, confirmed by an act of the Polish parliament of 2 July 1947. |
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| Location | Majdanek, Poland |
| Coordinates | 51°07′54″N 22°21′21″E / 51.1318°N 22.35579°E |
| Visitors | 121,404 (2011) |
| Director | Tomasz Kranz |
| Website | www |
The Majdanek State Museum (Polish: Państwowe Muzeum na Majdanku) 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.