Admission to the Museum is free of charge.

The physical existence of the Memorial makes it possible to acquire direct knowledge of Auschwitz with our own eyes. It is the best preserved evidence of the greatest fall of mankind and an enormous tragedy in the history of Europe. This is a symbol of the whole Shoah history, the system of concentration camps and an unrecorded crisis of evil.

Original camp objects and relics tell the story in a way that could never be expressed in a printed or visual manner. We need to be sure that they will continue to exist, so that it will be possible to come here also in the future, to see the place and pay tribute to the murdered, so that Auschwitz will be a lesson for anybody willing to hear it. 

  Poland

The Museum is subject to the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and is financed by Poland, which from the very beginning committed itself to preserve the memory of the crimes committed in that Nazi German Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp. 

  Foreign Aid

Maintaining the memory requires funding. The burden of safeguarding the authenticity of the site, conserving it and making available those most expressive and authentic traces of Holocaust and genocide is a task beyond the financial capabilities of the Museum itself. Therefore, obtaining foreign funding is of major importance.

The first international funds started flowing to the Museum only in the 1990s. 

Thanks to the Ronald S. Lauder Foundation professional conservation studios were created in the Museum in 2003. 

Financial help from Germany and other countries and associations, including the French Shoah Memory Foundation, as well as from individuals made selected preservation works and projects to commemorate the victims possible.

Currently the Museum budget includes its own revenues and subventions of the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, but also, among others, funds from the European Union and the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation.

  The Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation

The Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation was established in 2009. Its aim is to secure funds to finance long-term conservation works. More than thirty countries have joined the Foundation’s Perpetual Capital. After reaching its goal – gathering 120 million Euros – the revenue from the unalterable and safely invested capital will allow for annual financing of necessary works aimed at the preservation of the camp remains for future generations. It will be also possible to implement the Preservation Master Plan in order to preserve the camp remains: 155 objects (including barracks and watch towers amongst others) situated in the original area of 191 hectares (472 acres), as well as 300 ruins (including the ruins of the gas chambers), many kilometers of roads and fences, and other elements of the camp infrastructure, as well as archive documents and collections.

  Donations

We all share an obligation to make people aware that the world should learn from history.

It is the responsibility of every conscious and mature person. The Memorial is also supported by people of good will, helping with individual donations. The donations obtained in this manner are allocated for conserving the camp remains, historical research, education, publications and exhibitions, documenting and informing the world about the Nazi crime of Holocaust and genocide committed in Auschwitz.