Mauthausen Memorial from Vienna: opening hours, tours and how to get there

💡 The Short Version: The Mauthausen Memorial, at the site of a former concentration camp, is free to enter, with no registration. It is open daily until 26 October 2026, 09:00 to 17:30; from 27 October it is closed on Mondays and open Tuesday to Sunday, 09:00 to 15:45. The public guided tour is €8 and lasts 2 hours; it runs in English daily at 13:00 in July and August only. The audio guide is €5, and a free Virtual Guide works on a phone. The Memorial does not advise visiting with children under 14, and dogs are not permitted. From Vienna it is a train of 1 hour 46 minutes to 2 hours 2 minutes to Mauthausen station and then 4 km to the Memorial, on foot, by bus or by taxi. A guided day trip from Vienna is listed at the end of this page.

Opening hours and entry

The Memorial is at Erinnerungsstraße 1, 4310 Mauthausen (mauthausen-memorial.org).

The gatehouse at the entrance to the Mauthausen Memorial. Photo: Hangman’sDeath, Wikimedia Commons, CC0.

The Memorial is closed on 24 to 26 December and on 31 December and 1 January. The “Stairs of Death” in the quarry are open from 1 April to 26 October in good weather, with the last entry at 16:45, and are closed until 1 April.

Entry is free. The Memorial does not advise visiting with children under 14, and the visitor regulations apply to the whole site. Dogs and other animals are not permitted (visitor regulations).

What the Memorial has

• The permanent exhibition. “The Mauthausen Concentration Camp 1938–1945”, in the museum building, the former infirmary, and “The Crime Scenes of Mauthausen – Searching for Traces”, in its basement.
• The Room of Names.
• A special exhibition. “Things Tell Stories. Archaeology of the Mauthausen-Gusen Concentration Camp System”, in the former infirmary, from 23 April 2026 to 30 June 2027. It is closed from 12 to 23 October 2026 for maintenance (exhibitions).
• A documentary film. “The Mauthausen Concentration Camp” is shown in the Visitor Centre every hour on the hour, for 45 minutes. It is free, with no booking, and the minimum age is 14.
• The grounds. The original camp, the quarry and the memorial park on the site of the former SS camp.

The information portal and bookshop, next to the Visitor Centre, hand out brochures and audio guides.

Tours and guides

The public tour starts at the Visitor Centre opposite the car park. It follows the road below the camp wall, the edge of the quarry and the memorial park, then enters the former prisoners’ camp. The reduced price applies to people up to 18, people in education up to 27, people over 65 and the unemployed. The Memorial says public tours will be offered again in the summer of 2027.

Groups of up to 26 can book a two-hour guided tour for €120 (€60 reduced), by the 9th of the month before the visit, through the Memorial’s shop. A combined tour of Mauthausen and the Gusen Memorial, 4 km away, takes 4½ hours for €210 (€105 reduced); the minimum age is 16 and a bus or car is needed between the two sites (educational services).

Getting there from Vienna

By train

1 hour 46 minutes to 2 hours 2 minutes · €39.90 to €49.30 each way

Trains run from Wien Hauptbahnhof to Mauthausen station roughly hourly. One example is the 07:13, an EuroCity and then the REX 33, arriving at 08:59; another is the 07:57, an InterCity and then the R 33, arriving at 09:59. Other connections take a railjet and finish on bus 361 to the station forecourt, in 2 hours 26 minutes. Trains back leave Mauthausen at about :00 each hour, and with bus 361 at about :05; the last ones are at 22:00 and 22:05. The ÖBB second-class fare online on the day is €39.90 or €49.30 each way, depending on the route the ticket is priced on (ÖBB timetable and price tables). Train times are valid until 12 December 2026.

From the station to the Memorial

About 4 km · on foot, bus 360 or 361, or taxi

The Memorial’s own audio trail, “Inter-Spaces I”, can be downloaded and followed on foot from the station along the route the prisoners took. Buses 360 and 361 stop at Mauthausen Linzerstraße/Hauptschule, from where the path to the Memorial is 1.8 km uphill and signposted, and at Mauthausen Abzw. Wienergraben, from where it is 1.4 km uphill. A taxi can be called on +43 7238 24 39 (Taxi Brixner). Parking at the Memorial is free for cars and buses (how to get here).

The outer wall of the Mauthausen Memorial. Photo: Rimar, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 DE.

From Linz

Bus 362 runs from Linz bus terminal to the Memorial from 1 March until 26 October 2026 only, at 08:48, 09:48, 12:48, 15:18 and 17:18. Back from the Memorial it leaves at 10:00, 13:00, 15:30 and 17:30, via Gusen.

Before you go

• From 27 October 2026 the Memorial closes at 15:45 and is closed on Mondays; audio guides are handed out until 13:30.
• The special exhibition is closed from 12 to 23 October 2026.
• The bus from Linz stops running after 26 October 2026.
• The Stairs of Death are closed from 27 October until 1 April.

Mauthausen is one of the day trips from Vienna. Vienna public transport covers the way to Hauptbahnhof.

GetYourGuide lists a guided day trip from Vienna, 8½ hours from €118; the listing describes a guided tour, the camp grounds, the museum, the Room of Names and the quarry.