Educational services

The guided tour begins at the Visitor Centre opposite the car park. The first stops on the tour are the road below the camp wall, the top of the quarry and the memorial park on the site of the former SS camp. The tour then continues inside the former prisoner camp. This route enables visitors to understand the route taken by the prisoners, to engage critically with the perspectives of the perpetrators, and to reflect on how the concentration camp was viewed by the wider population during the Nazi era. Confronting the perspectives of victims, perpetrators and local people is an essential feature of the tour.

The guides are all specially trained educators. Our education training places great emphasis on encouraging interaction and openness among visitors. This results in tours that offer a balance of historical information and group discussion about what that history means.

Individual Visitors

September until the end of June: Saturday, Sunday and Public Holiday in German at 1pm
(Exception: in April 2023 Start at 2pm)

July: Daily in German and English at 1pm
August: Daily in German and English at 1pm, 1 August until 21 August 2023: daily in Italian at 10:30am

Minimum age: 14
No advance booking required.
Limited group size.

Groups

Minimum age: 14
Minimum group size: 13

Advance booking required:
Tel: +43 7238 2269-35
Email: education@mauthausen-memorial.org

Tour with preparation and follow-up

Tour with workshop

This educational package combines the guided tour with a workshop. There is a choice of three topics for the workshop: Life stories; literary approaches to Mauthausen (available in German language only); or the permanent exhibition ‘The Mauthausen Concentration Camp 1938–1945’.

(photo credits: Franz Hackl)Duration: 4 hours with a break of half an hour

Minimum age: 14

Maximum group size: 16

Advance booking required:
Tel: +43 7238 2269-35
E-Mail: education@mauthausen-memorial.org

Individual visitors

Every hour on the hour, the ORF III documentary “The Mauthausen Concentration Camp” is screened in the film rooms at the Visitor Center.

Minimum age: 14
No advance booking required.

Groups

On request we will organise screenings of the ORF III documentary “The Mauthausen Concentration Camp” for groups in the film rooms at the Visitor Center.

Minimum age: 14

Advance booking required:
Tel: +43 7238 2269-35
Email: education@mauthausen-memorial.org

Audio guide

Sign board for the audio guide at the Mauthausen Memorial (photo credits: KZ-Gedenkstätte Mauthausen / Stephan Matyus)There are two options:

Virtual Guide

https://mm-tours.org/ Available in 12 languages*

Audio Guide

Audio guides are handed out from the beginning of March until the end of October until 03:00 pm, in wintertime until 01:30 pm.

Minimum age: 14
No advance booking required.

* German, English, French, Hebrew, Czech, Dutch, Turkish, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Russian, Spanish

Download the app IWalk - USC Shoah Foundation for free and let the IWalk Mauthausen Memorial: Vestiges of the Past guide you through the former concentration camp. Each stop looks at an object on site. Testimonies of time-witnesses, photos and questions encourage you to think about past, present and future.

The IWalk is an ideal resource to use in combination with other existing educational formats, such as guided tours workshops or the audio guide.
The IWalk can be done on site or remotely.
Using the platform IWitness teachers can see their students’ progress in the app.

This IWalk is a project by _erinnern.at_ and the USC Shoah Foundation in cooperation with Mauthausen Memorial and was curated by Marlene Wöckinger.

*English, German
Minimum age: 14
No advance booking required.

The tour explores the history of the Gusen concentration camp, a branch camp of Mauthausen situated around 4km away. The Gusen concentration camp was as large as the main camp in Mauthausen. The tour also covers topics such as the post-war use of the former camp grounds in Gusen as a housing estate and the question of how the Nazi past has been dealt with up to the present day.

Minimum group size: 13

Advance booking required:
Tel: +43 7238 2269-35
Email: education@mauthausen-memorial.org