Police heritage
Polizeihistorische Sammlung
A publicly accessible collection inside the Berlin police academy — a museum in function, a Sammlung in name, and archival as well as exhibitional in what it holds.
At a glance
- Name
- Polizeihistorische Sammlung — Police History Collection, Berlin
- Kind
- Collection Run by a police service
- Operator
- Polizei Berlin, at the Polizeiakademie
- Where
- Berlin, Germany
- Official page
- https://www.berlin.de/polizei/verschiedenes/polizeihistorische-sammlung/ — read on 13 September 2026.
- Facts last checked against sources
- 13 September 2026
What it preserves
Uniforms, weapons and working tools of the police alongside material from criminal cases, covering "den polizeilichen Arbeitsalltag in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart". It also maintains archival documents, a reference library and photographs.
Its police-history scope
The policing of Berlin. Because Berlin is a city-state, the collection is simultaneously that of a city force and of a German Land force.
Public access, as officially stated
Whose history this holds
Sources
Polizeihistorische Sammlung — Polizei Berlin
Polizei Berlin (Land Berlin) · Museum · link verified 2026-09-13
SCOPE: the Berlin police history collection only. The force’s own page, read directly. Supports the official name Polizeihistorische Sammlung; that it is operated by the Polizei Berlin and housed at the Polizeiakademie, Platz der Luftbrücke 6; that it is "öffentlich zugänglich für Jung und Alt"; that it displays uniforms, weapons and working tools of the police alongside material from criminal cases, covering "den polizeilichen Arbeitsalltag in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart"; and that it maintains archival documents, a reference library and photographs. Establishes nothing about the collections of any other Land.