Finances
Fulfilling the Memorial’s mission, preserving its authenticity and educating people about the history of Auschwitz necessitate financial resources that exceed the Museum’s capacity. Therefore, funds received from multiple sources, including in-house revenues, grants from the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation, and the European Union, hold great significance.
In 2024, the earmarked funds from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, amounting to €8.6 million, were allocated, among others, to the following projects: €5.6 million for organising the New Main Exhibition, €2.3 million for the project related to organising the New Polish Exhibition, €0.3 million for the construction of the Visitor Services Center, and €11,000 for a monographic publication on the deportation and extermination of Sinti and Roma at KL Auschwitz.
The amount of €5.1 million transferred from the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation was allocated to conservation tasks carried out in 2024 at the site of the former Auschwitz II -Birkenau camp (including conservation of brick and wooden barracks and the ruins of gas chambers and crematoria) and the on-going conservation of Museum artefacts and archival materials, such as suitcases, shoes and enamelled utensils, as well as secret messages, and camp letters, along with the digitisation of documents.
Within the framework of the European Regional Development Fund, the European Union and the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, are co-financing the project “Increasing access to cultural resources by expanding the tour routes of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum to include the post-camp space of the Schlachthaus and Molkerei buildings and the conversion of the cinema hall.” In 2024, the project was funded with €2.1 million from the EU and €0.4 million from Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.
In previous years, the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Foundation in the United States granted funding for the construction of the Visitor Services Center. Ronald S. Lauder and Joel and Ulrika Citron provided this financial support. Its value increased by an additional €49,000 through bank interest.
The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum and Memorial imposes an obligation of remembrance and education on future generations throughout the world.
Each institution and every person of good will desirous of helping to bear the burden of maintaining, preserving, and ensuring access to these most eloquent, authentic vestiges of the Holocaust and genocide is requested to contact:
PAŃSTWOWE MUZEUM AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU W OŚWIĘCIMIU
ul. Więźniów Oświęcimia 20
32-600 Oświęcim
Tel. +48 33 844 8003
Fax. +48 33 843 1862
e-mail: muzeum@auschwitz.org
Bank account number: PL 29 1130 1150 0012 1268 9720 0001
Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego
ul. Stefana Batorego 14
31-135 Kraków
SWIFT CODE: GOSKPLPW
It is also possible to make direct contributions to the Memorial at our website
