Państwowe Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau w Oświęcimiu

The museum preserves the site of the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, in two parts: Auschwitz I and Birkenau. More than 150 buildings, ruins, roads, the railway ramp and fences survive, along with archives and over a hundred thousand objects such as suitcases, shoes and prisoners' clothing. There is a main exhibition and a number of national exhibitions prepared by individual countries. The site became a World Heritage Site in 1979.