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Apps / Multimedia Guides

You can also explore Buchenwald with our app, which is available for free in the Apple Store or Google Play Store.

A visitor uses the I-Guide app while touring the memorial. The smartphone used is equipped with headphones.

Downloadable "Buchenwald" App

To tour the former camp facility independently, visitors are welcome to use our "Buchenwald" app, which provides in seven different languages information, historical photos, and eyewitness accounts. The download is available for free from the Apple Store or Google Play Store.

Also, the permanent exhibition "Buchenwald. Ostracism and Violence 1937 to 1945" can be explored using the app.

Languages: German, English, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Spanish, and German Sign Language.

We kindly ask you to download the app to your smartphone before your visit and to bring your own headphones.

Download via the Apple App store Download via the Google Play Store
The entrance to the visitor information center. Above the open door, a lettering indicates the visitor information inside.

Alternative: Borrowing a Multimedia Guide

If you do not want to use your own smartphone or do not have one at your disposal, you can borrow our multimedia guide at the Visitor Information Centre.

Price per person (including headphones): 5 Euro | Discounts for groups

The recommended minimum age is 15 years.

Languages: German, English, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Spanish, and German Sign Language.

Multimedia guides can be reserved through the Visitor Information Centre at information@buchenwald.de.

Additional Audiowalks in Buchenwald

Detail of the poster for the audio walk. QR codes and short descriptions in different languages.

Buchenwald: An Audio Walk Historical and Contemporary Sounds from Buchenwald

The audio walk was developed by young people with and without refugee or migration biographies in 2020/21. It is available in five languages.

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mahnmalhören Audio-walk

Ein 30 Minuten langer Audiowalk durch das Mahnmal der Gedenkstätte Buchenwald. Der Rundgang läuft entgegen der ursprünglichen, von den Erbauern in den 1950er Jahren erdachten “offiziellen” Streckenführung, und bietet so eine eigene, schlüssige Dramaturgie.

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Upper half of a smartphone display with the app "The Bauhäusler Franz Ehrlich".

Bauhaus Graduate Franz Ehlich in Buchenwald Audiowalk

In 1937, the Bauhaus graduate Franz Ehrlich was sent to the Buchenwald Concentration Camp due to political persecution. There he was forced to design the lettering "Jedem das Seine" (To each his own) on the gate of the inmates' camp,...

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Zu sehen ist eine Karte auf der die Route von Ettesburg nach Buchenwald verzeichnet ist.

Ettersburg — Buchenwald Audiowalk

The 45-minute audio walk leads from Ettersburg Castle near Weimar to the Buchenwald concentration camp memorial and can be used as preparation for a visit to the memorial.

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Additional Apps

App Weimar im Nationalsozialismus

Weimar under National Socialism App

The multimedia guided tour provides a new perspective on Weimar, which was to be transformed into a model Nazi city under National Socialism. (German only)

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