{"id":13742,"date":"2026-03-21T21:30:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T21:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/?p=13742"},"modified":"2026-10-05T18:49:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T18:49:16","slug":"museo-auschwitz-birkenau-oswiecim-polonia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/it\/poland\/auschwitz-birkenau-museum-oswiecim-poland\/","title":{"rendered":"Museo Auschwitz Birkenau, O\u015bwi\u0119cim, Polonia"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum is located in the town of O\u015bwi\u0119cim, about 70 km west of Krak\u00f3w in southern Poland. The site consists of two main parts: Auschwitz I, the original concentration camp established by Nazi Germany in 1940, and Auschwitz II\u2013Birkenau, a much larger extermination camp built nearby in 1941. Today, the area is preserved as a museum and memorial dedicated to the victims of the Holocaust. In 1979, the site was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List as a symbol of the crimes committed during World War II.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Auschwitz-Birkenau is one of the most important historical sites in Europe, representing the largest Nazi concentration and extermination camp complex. More than 1.1 million people, primarily Jews, as well as Poles, Roma, and others, were murdered there. The preserved structures\u2014including barracks, watchtowers, barbed wire fences, and railway tracks\u2014provide direct evidence of the camp\u2019s function. The museum also contains exhibitions with personal belongings of victims, documents, and photographs that illustrate the scale and human impact of the atrocities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Visita al Memoriale<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Visitors to the site can explore both Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II\u2013Birkenau. Auschwitz I houses the main museum exhibitions, including historical displays inside former prisoner blocks. Birkenau, located about 3 km away, is a vast open area with rows of barracks, ruins of gas chambers, and the iconic railway entrance gate. A free shuttle bus connects the two parts of the complex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The museum can be reached from Krak\u00f3w by car, train, or bus in about 1\u20131.5 hours. Organized tours from Krak\u00f3w are also widely available and often include transportation and a guided visit. From O\u015bwi\u0119cim railway station, the museum is about 2 km away and can be reached by local bus or taxi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

L\u2019ingresso al Memoriale \u00e8 gratuito, ma ogni visitatore deve prenotare in anticipo una tessera d\u2019ingresso su visit.auschwitz.org; all\u2019ingresso non se ne rilasciano. Le visite guidate con gli educatori del Museo sono a pagamento e vivamente consigliate. Il Memoriale \u00e8 aperto tutto l\u2019anno tranne il 1\u00b0 gennaio, il 25 dicembre e la domenica di Pasqua, dalle 7:30 alle 14:00 a dicembre e fino alle 19:00 in estate; arrivate almeno 30 minuti prima per i controlli di sicurezza. Calcolate circa 90 minuti per ciascuno dei due campi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Memoriale e museo negli ex campi nazisti tedeschi di Auschwitz I e Birkenau a O\u015bwi\u0119cim; sito UNESCO, ingresso gratuito con una tessera prenotata in anticipo.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[971,976,1077],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poland","category-museums","category-unesco-heritage"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13742"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16991,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13742\/revisions\/16991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}