1950-1959

1950

• the Museum statutes are approved;
• the general exhibition is expanded.

1952

• notes by an anonymous Sonderkommando member are discovered on the grounds of the former Birkenau concentration camp.  

1955

• a new permanent exhibition is opened on the Auschwitz I site.
• a monument-urn is unveiled on the grounds of the former Birkenau concentration camp.

1957

• parliament passes a law fixing the boundaries of the Museum;
• the Documentation Department of the Cracow District Commission for the Investigation of Nazi War Crimes in Poland is transferred to the Museum, where it becomes the Archive Department;
• the first issues of Zeszytów Oswiecimskich and Hefte von Auschwitz (The Auschwitz Journal) are published.  

1959

• the jury selects a winner in an international competition for a monument on the Birkenau grounds; the project is never realized because it violates the July 2, 1947 law on the inadmissibility of changes to the camp grounds.