Ghetto Museum Terezín, Holocaust education museum in Terezín, Czech Republic.
The Ghetto Museum Terezín is a history museum housed in a former school building displaying artifacts, documents, photographs, and personal items across multiple rooms. The exhibitions document living conditions and experiences during Nazi occupation.
The museum occupies the building of the former Terezín elementary school in Komenského Street, in the block between Československé armády Square and Pražská Street. Its core permanent exhibition, Terezín in the So-Called Final Solution of the Jewish Question 1941–1945, dates from 1991 and was created in close cooperation with former prisoners. In October 2026 the museum was announced closed for reconstruction, with reopening planned for 2028.
The museum's core exhibition, "Terezín in the Final Solution of the Jewish Question 1941–1945", was created in close cooperation with former prisoners of the Terezín Ghetto. It gathers documentary artefacts on their lives under the constant threat of transport to the extermination camps, and on the creative and artistic work through which they resisted.
The museum occupies the former elementary school building on Komenského Street, in the block between Československé armády Square and Pražská Street, where the town office, police station and post office also stand. A cinema hall serves for documentary screenings and lectures, and a shop sells brochures, books, videotapes and DVDs. The museum closed in October 2026 for reconstruction, with reopening planned for 2028.
The museum occupies the former Terezín elementary school on Komenského Street, in the same block as the town hall, the local police station and the post office. Its core exhibition, Terezín in the So-Called Final Solution of the Jewish Question 1941–1945, was created in close cooperation with former prisoners themselves.
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