West!

City history Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf

Since 2012, the museum has been presenting its art historical research as well as its urban and everyday history collection in the Villa Oppenheim near Charlottenburg Palace.

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  Georg Pahl: Blick durch den Lorbeerkranz der Viktoria auf der Siegessäule nach Westen, nach 1953 – Georg Pahl: Blick durch den Lorbeerkranz der Viktoria auf der Siegessäule nach Westen, nach 1953 © akg-images / Willo Göpel

• Dauerausstellung WESTEN!, Boulevard – Dauerausstellung WESTEN!, Boulevard. Foto: Ringo Paulusch

• Dauerausstellung WESTEN!, Kino – Dauerausstellung WESTEN!, Kino. Foto: Ringo Paulusch

With the show "Westen!" it presents a permanent exhibition on the history of the district that was united in 2001.

The focus is on the special role of the two "beautiful sisters" Charlottenburg and Wilmersdorf as a second city center next to the historic center of Berlin, as City-West. The exhibition tells the story of events and people that have shaped the district over a period of more than three centuries. The exhibition is divided into four parts:

Boulevard: exhibits from the museum's own collection and a large number of loans from other Berlin museums invite visitors to take a chronological tour of the city's history. They are presented in six replicas of the famous Ku'damm showcase.

Cinema: Film sequences, some of which have never been shown before, and rare photographs have been arranged into films that review the eventful history of Charlottenburg and Wilmersdorf. Four films will be shown: "Charlottenburg & Wilmersdorf. A Chronology", "Destruction and Reconstruction after 1945" and "Executions, Political Murders and Murderous Politics" as well as "Courts of the Muses and Industrial Areas of the Intelligentsia".

Media station: Based on historical maps that illustrate the development of the district area over the past 300 years, an interactive media station offers extensive texts, biographies and visual material on hundreds of places, events and people in Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf.

District Pantheon: Eleven personalities from the fields of politics, culture, theater, photography, education, social services and welfare who have left their mark on the district are presented in portraits in the foyer of Villa Oppenheim.

Runtime: from December 2014

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Takes place here:

• Museum Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf in der Villa Oppenheim