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.

Minimum age: 14 
 

September to June: Saturdays, Sunday, Public holidays at 1:00 pm in German

Christmas holidays: every additionally on 27.12.2024, 02.01. and 03.01.2025

Holy week: daily from 14 - 18 April 2025

July and August: daily at 1:00 pm in English and German

1 to 24 August: daily at 10:30 am in Italian

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 (12:45 pm) and will then be allocated to others if necessary.
Please check in on time at the information portal in the visitor center.

The guided tour in Gusen 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

Combination option: After the public guided tour of the Mauthausen Memorial (Saturday/Sunday from 1:00 to 3:00 pm) you can take the public bus (Line 361) directly to the Gusen Concentration Camp Memorial. 
Departure: 3:30 pm at the Mauthausen Memorial visitors' car park
Arrival: 3:38 pm in Gusen/Bachstraße

September and October 2024: every Saturday at 1:00 pm in German

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)

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.

Minimum age: 14
Maximum group size: 26

Advance booking required:
Shop - Mauthausen Memorial (mauthausen-memorial.org)

Information and inquiries:
Tel: +43 7238 2269-35 (Mo – Fr, 9:00 am to 12:00 pm)
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 (maximum 48 in total, 3 groups)

Advance booking required:
Shop - Mauthausen Memorial (mauthausen-memorial.org)

Information and inquiries:
Tel: +43 7238 2269-35 (Mo – Fr, 9:00 am to 12:00 pm)
Email: education@mauthausen-memorial.org

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:
Shop - Mauthausen Memorial (mauthausen-memorial.org)

Information and inquiries:
Tel: +43 7238 2269-35 (Mo – Fr, 9:00 am to 12:00 pm)
Email: 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 (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.

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 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

The guided tour in Gusen 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

Combination option: After the public guided tour of the Mauthausen Memorial (Saturday/Sunday from 1:00 to 3:00 pm) you can take the public bus (Line 361) directly to the Gusen Concentration Camp Memorial. 
Departure: 3:30 pm at the Mauthausen Memorial visitors' car park
Arrival: 3:38 pm in Gusen/Bachstraße

September and October 2024: every Saturday at 1:00 pm in German

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:
Shop - Mauthausen Memorial (mauthausen-memorial.org)

Information and inquiries:
Tel: +43 7238 2269-35 (Mo – Fr, 9:00 am to 12:00 pm)
Email: education@mauthausen-memorial.org

Individual visitors and Groups

Gusen Audiowalk

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

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