The Museum is housed in an historic building located on a 2-hectare plot 200 metres from the site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Former Nazi German Concentration and Extermination Camp.
The building was erected around 1916 to house a bakery.
From 1924 it was used as a warehouse for raw materials of the Polish Tobacco Monopoly. During the German occupation, the building was known as the “Lagerhaus” and was used by the camp SS as a warehouse for groats, flour and sugar.
After World War II, it was taken over by the District Grain-Milling Enterprise of the State Grain Plants in Krakow. For many years it stood undeveloped and began to fall into disrepair.
In 2009, work was carried out to preserve and strengthen the structure, including insulation of the foundations and new roof tiling.