Access to the memorial site is free of charge and possible without registration. Feel free to use our Virtual Guide for your smartphone (https://mm-tours.org/en, available both on and offline) or an audio guide (5,00 EUR) to learn more about the historical sites. On this site, we inform about additional educational programmes.
Groups: Please note that the educational services listed here can only be booked online until the 9th day of the previous month. Per group a maximum of 2 escorting persons may visit free of charge.
All programmes are free for former Mauthausen concentration camp prisoners and their families.
*Reduced prices apply to people up to 18 years, people in education up to 27 years, people over 65 years or with pensioners card and the unemployed.
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.
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 (Mo – Fr, 9:00 am to 12:00 pm)
Email: education@mauthausen-memorial.org
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.
Sign board for the audio guide at the Mauthausen Memorial (photo credits: KZ-Gedenkstätte Mauthausen / Stephan Matyus)There are two options:
https://mm-tours.org/ Available in 12 languages*
Audio guides are handed out from the beginning of March until the end of October until 3:00 pm, in wintertime until 1:30 pm.
Minimum age: 14
No advance booking required.
* German, English, French, Hebrew, Czech, Dutch, Turkish, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Russian, Spanish
Gusen concentration camp – the site of the one of the biggest mass crimes committed by the Nazis in present-day Austria, a place of forced labour and the murder of tens of thousands of people from across Europe – disappeared from public memory almost completely in the decades after 1945. While the former Mauthausen concentration camp was turned into a memorial site, most of what remained of the Gusen camp was removed to make way for a housing estate. Now, the expansion of the Gusen Memorial marks the beginning of a new phase in the memory of the camp. The guided tour opens up new historical sites (roll call square, SS barracks, SS ornamental garden, stone crusher) to the public for the first time, exploring not only different aspects of the camp’s history but also postwar developments at the site. Turning to the present day, it raises questions about society’s responsibility for memory and remembrance.
Maximum group size: 26
Advance booking required:
Tel: +43 7238 2269-35 (Mo – Fr, 9:00 am to 12:00 pm)
Email: education@mauthausen-memorial.org
From April to October 2025, a public guided tour of Gusen is offered every Saturday from 11:00 to 13:00.
This guided tour primarily focus on the plots of land purchased in 2022 and the history of this area (1939 - 2024). The tour also includes a visit to the Memorial de Gusen, where the former crematorium is located. This site is now the central commemoration site of the Gusen Concentration Camp Memorial.
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.
Minimum age: 14
An advance registration is recommended and can be made on weekdays (Mo – Fr) from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm
by phone (+43 7238 2269-35) or by email (education@mauthausen-memorial.org).
The timeslots will be reserved until 15 minutes before the tour starts (3:45 pm) and will then be allocated to others if necessary.
Please check in on time at the information portal in the visitor center.
Rock crusher of former Gusen Concentration Camp (© Mauthausen Memorial / Bernhard Mühleder)
Mauthausen. A small town on the Danube known far beyond Austria’s borders because of its Nazi past. Gusen. Likewise a small town on the Danube, but one hardly anyone has heard of. While after 1945 a memorial site was created at the former ‘main camp’ of Mauthausen, the Gusen ‘branch camp’ of equal size, lying four kilometres away, almost completely vanished from public memory. The combined tour Mauthausen – Gusen starts in Mauthausen with an exploration of the history of the Nazi concentration camps. In Gusen, focus then moves to the history after 1945 and to the struggle to find adequate forms of memory.
Minimum age: 16
Maximum group size: 16 (up to 3 groups at once)
A bus or own car is needed for travel between Mauthausen and Gusen.
Advance booking required:
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Information and inquiries:
Tel: +43 7238 2269-35 (Mo – Fr, 9:00 am to 12:00 pm)
Email: education@mauthausen-memorial.org
Use our Virtual Guide for your smartphone for free. Available in 12 languages*: https://mm-tours.org/.
* German, English, French, Hebrew, Czech, Dutch, Turkish, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Russian, Spanish
The Audiowalk explores the submerged memory of a place that was the location of the Gusen I and II concentration camps during the Nazi dictatorship.
Audioweg Gusen (Foto: KZ-Gedenkstätte Mauthausen)
Minimum age: 14
Headsets for the Audiowalk must be reserved in advance by telephone and can be picked up from Gusen Memorial during opening hours (pick-up: March to October until 1:45 pm (return by 4:45 pm); winter months until 12:45 pm (return by 3:45 pm)).
Advance booking required:
Tel: +43 7238 2269-35 (Mo – Fr, 9:00 am to 12:00 pm)
EMail: education@mauthausen-memorial.org
The public guided tours for individual visitors are currently in preparation. Instead, you are welcome to take part in our public tours, which are free of charge.
You can find more detailed information here.
The workshop, which is held in a seminar room at the teacher training college in Melk (PH Melk), can take place either before or after the tour. It shines a light on the biographies not only of people who were imprisoned in the Melk concentration camp but also of perpetrators and those living near the camp. This multi-perspectival method takes account of the complexity of the camp. Working in small groups, participants select one of the short biographies provided and discuss it with the help of key questions. These biographies then form part of the tour. This biographical approach is particularly suitable for emphasising the human dimension of history, giving additional depth to the tour.
Duration: 4 hours, including a 30-minute break
Age: 14 years and up
Group size: max. 16 (total max. 48, split into 4 parallel groups)
Meeting point: Abt-Karl-Strasse 23, 3390 Melk
Booking, Information and enquiries:
Tel: +43 681 81318543
Email: education@melk-memorial.org
The invoice for the tour will be sent by email after the event.
The in-depth tour begins at Melk railway station and, in terms of content, it is similar to the 2-hour guided tour. However, it offers the opportunity to respond better to pupils’ needs and questions than the 2-hour-long format. In addition, as a teacher, we invite you to contact us in advance and tell us what your pupils are particularly interested in. This means that the visit can be tailored even better to the interests of the participants. The first stops are along the road leading to the former concentration camp site and barracks. This route allows pupils to retrace the path taken by the prisoners, engage critically with the perspective of the perpetrators, and thematise how the concentration camp was perceived in society during the Nazi era. Here, too, confronting visitors with the perspectives of victims, perpetrators and local people is a fundamental feature of the tour.
Our educators are specially trained to give tours of the concentration camp memorial site. In their pedagogical training, special emphasis is placed on interactive openness for the visitors, meaning that the tours offer a balance of historical information and group discussion on the meaning of that history.
Age: 14 and up
Group size: max. 25, (recommended 15-20). Two groups can start at the same time, with subsequent groups departing at one hour intervals
Meeting point: Melk railway station
Booking, Information and enquiries:
Tel: +43 681 81318543
Email: education@melk-memorial.org
The invoice for the tour will be sent by email after the event.
The tour begins at Melk railway station. The first stops are along the road leading to the former concentration camp site and barracks. This route allows participants to retrace the path taken by the prisoners, engage critically with the perspective of the perpetrators, and thematise how the concentration camp was perceived in society during the Nazi era. Confronting visitors with the perspectives of victims, perpetrators and local people is a fundamental feature of the tour.
Our educators are specially trained to give tours of the concentration camp memorial site. In their pedagogical training, special emphasis is placed on interactive openness for the visitors, meaning that the tours offer a balance of historical information and group discussion on the meaning of that history.
Age: 14 and up
Group size: max. 25, (recommended 15-20). Two groups can start at the same time, with subsequent groups departing at one hour intervals
Meeting point: Melk railway station
Booking, Information and enquiries:
Tel: +43 681 81318543
Email: education@melk-memorial.org
The invoice for the tour will be sent by email after the event.
This education format combines a two-hour guided tour with a preparatory workshop in a seminar room at the teacher training college in Melk (PH Melk). Participants are encouraged to share ideas within the group and the educator will ask about any special interests. During the workshop, the (young) visitors select from a range of visual materials and reflect on them, later contributing these thoughts to the tour itself. In this way, the visitors help determine the focus of the tour. The format concludes with a discussion of impressions gained on the tour.
Age: 14 years and up
Group size: max. 16 (total max. 48, split into 3 parallel groups)
Meeting point: Abt-Karl-Strasse 23, 3390 Melk
Booking, Information and enquiries:
Tel: +43 681 81318543
Email: education@melk-memorial.org
The invoice for the tour will be sent by email after the event.
Tours with advance booking at museum@utanet.at or 004361 33 56 01
More detailed information can be found on the website of the Zeitgeschichte Museum Ebensee.