Oskar Schindler Factory Tours

Oskar Schindler Factory showing interior views and signage
Gain an insight into what it was like to live in wartime Krakow in the factory made famous by the Hollywood movie Schindler’s List.

Oskar Schindler’s Factory is a moving museum in central Krakow that is dedicated to communicating the plight of Jewish families during the Holocaust. Listen to radio excerpts announcing Nazi propaganda and imagine how it must have felt to be one of the Jewish workers in Oskar Schindler’s Factory in wartime Krakow. Read extracts from letters and diaries. Photographs and reconstructed scenes of daily life help to paint a vivid picture of what life would have been like for many families in Poland. 

The Oskar Schindler Factory has been a museum since June 2010. The factory was made famous by the Oscar-winning Steven Spielberg film Schindler’s List. Businessman Oskar Schindler ran his enameled goods business here during World War II. The business made him a fortune and allowed him to save the lives of over 1,200 Jews by sending them to work. The museum focuses on Krakow under Nazi occupation. 

Explore the factory by following a sign-posted route through the different exhibits. Peek into a hair salon or a typical apartment or see the kind of cramped quarters where families were sometimes forced to take shelter. Discover what life in the factory and the lives of its workers would have been like via several reconstructions, photos and first-hand descriptions. Visit Schindler’s office, where his desk sits before a large glass cabinet filled with enamel goods. 

Watch a documentary and historical footage from the war in the museum’s large screening room. Many of the objects and areas in the factory are recognizable from the Hollywood movie. 

The Oskar Schindler Factory is located in the industrial Zablocie district of Krakow. It is less than 2 miles (3 kilometers) southeast of the Old Town (Stare Miasto) area. There are bus and tram stops nearby. The museum is open daily, with shorter hours on Mondays. It’s closed on the first Monday of every month. There is a charge for entry. 

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Carl
Jan 7, 2020

On this trip, we wanted to go and visit the Jewish sector of Krakow. The factory tour was very informative. We spend 4 hours walking and reading all of the information they displayed. We went to Auschwitz ten years ago and didn't want to go again (my husband had family members die there), but this tour explained how Schindler saved some of the Jews from going to the camp. It touched my heart when we were walking back to the apartment, that just a short time ago in history, these streets and these buildings were full of Jewish people being contained by the Germans. It made me realize that right now, at this very moment in time, I am walking on a street where someone was worried about their life and their future. It was a feeling that I know I will never forget!

4/5 - Good

Jess
Oct 3, 2019

This is more of a WWII/Jewish history museum than a visit to the actual Schindler Factory. Don't go expecting to see the old machines/workplace, etc. It is wise to get tickets online in advance as they sell out of tickets during season.

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Verified traveler
May 15, 2019

The tour was very interesting but if you are also going to Auschwitz I would skip the factory tour as it is very much the same info

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Eva
Oct 14, 2018

This museum is highly recommended. Very well done with a lot of information.

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Nicola
Oct 10, 2018

It was about a 30 minute walk from apartment

2/5 - Disappointing

Amanda
Oct 10, 2018

Museum open until 1900. We got a taxi to there and arrived at 1500 to be told all tickets had be sold out for that day.

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