New Tour Schedule
From October 4th, 2009, onwards the englishspoken tours for single visitors will start daily (except mondays) at 11 am and 1 pm.
Besides all "short introductions" will be cancelled.
Opening Times on Bank Holidays
The Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site will be open on the following Bavarian bank holidays from 9am to 5pm:
Good Friday (April, 2nd)
Easter Sunday (April, 4th)
Easter Monday (April, 5th)
May Day (May, 1st)
Ascension Day (May, 13th)
Pentecost Sunday, Pentecost Monday (May, 23rd and 24th)
Corpus Christi (June, 3rd)
Assumption Day (August, 15th)
On Mondays the memorial site will be closed (except Easter Monday and Pentecost Monday).
Opening of a new visitors' center
Project description
The Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site is visited yearly by ca. 800,000 people from around the world. It is necessary to offer services which meet the needs of this high level of visitors. Aside from caring for the basic needs of visitors, an adequate variety of information on the site must be provided. In order to achieve this balance a new visitors' center was opened on April, 30th, 2009. The new building includes a café, snack bar. It also houses a welcome desk and service area, which will include a helpdesk, bookstore and audio guide center.
The Architecture
The new visitors' center blends in with its complex urban surroundings and reflects the topographical history of the site. The goal was to create a prototype which resembles the existing historical buildings, but which also fulfills the demands of the large volume of visitors. Therefore, the Memorial Site selected the design by Florian Nagler Architects, who included all of the design goals in their proposal.