Muzeum Zamek w Oświęcimiu

Muzeum Zamek w Oświęcimiu is a museum in Gmina Oświęcim, Oświęcim County, Małopolskie, which is located on Zamkowa. Muzeum Zamek w Oświęcimiu is situated near Oświęcim Castle, as well as near the synagogue Synagoga Chewra Lomdei Misznajot.

Email: muzeum@muzeum-zamek.pl
Type: Museum
Address: Zamkowa 1, Oświęcim, 32-600

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights: Oświęcim Castle and Jewish Center.

Oświęcim Castle

Photo: Jacek Daczyński, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Oświęcim Castle is a castle raised in the Medieval Ages on the top of a hill, on the right bank of the River Soła in Oświęcim. The castle comprises a thirteenth-century early-Gothic defence tower covered by a roof, a two-floor building built around a courtyard and additional connections between the wings built in 1929–31.

Jewish Center

Museum

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

The Auschwitz Jewish Center is a non-governmental organization whose mission is to preserve the memory of the Jewish community of the city of Oświęcim and educate about the dangers of anti-Semitism, racism and other prejudices and intolerance.

Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in Oświęcim

Church

Photo: Beemwej, CC BY-SA 3.0 pl.

Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in Oświęcim is situated 140 metres east of Muzeum Zamek w Oświęcimiu.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Oświęcim and Babice.

Oświęcim

Photo: Lankhorst, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Oświęcim is a town in Małopolskie Province in southern Poland, 60 km west of Kraków. It's better known by its German name of Auschwitz, and from 1940 to 1945 over a million people, mostly Jews, were slain in the nearby camps.