There are 2 individual ticket options available for Schindler’s Factory- the permanent exhibition and the guided tour. Is the guided tour worth it? If you buy the guided tour ticket, does it include the permanent exhibition or does the latter need to be bought separately? If you buy the guided tour ticket, can you go back and look at the permanent exhibition after the tour? We don’t think it’s clear from the website.
Thanks!
Posted by
Bellingham, WA
1081 posts
I don't know what the guided tour would be of, if not the permanent exhibition. I toured the factory with two 12-year-olds, and I don't think we suffered for not having a guide. Everything was very straightforward. Where I would have liked a guide was when I found myself in the "park" where the camp used to be. There were signs (which is how we knew that's where we were), but the whole place was a little rundown. This was in 2018, so maybe it's better now?
Posted by
Pennsylvania
358 posts
We took the guided tour a couple of years ago. It takes you through the permanent exhibition. It probably wasn’t the best guided tour that I’ve ever been on, but it was worthwhile to me. A caveat would be if you’re someone who likes to read tons of detail, it’s really not possible on the tour. It was relatively fast-paced and the guide spoke pretty fast (no earphone device either so you had to stay close by to hear). I also seem to remember that a lot of the exhibits featured things like newspaper articles/propaganda posters of the time, which of course weren’t in English. I wouldn’t have been able to read them myself anyway, so I was glad to have the guide give an overview. I can’t recall if we were able to return to parts of the exhibition after the tour was over. We didn’t, but that just may have been our choice.