Museum Hotel Silber

Museum Hotel Silber stands in Stuttgart as a memorial and learning place focused on political persecution by the police. Its permanent exhibition, “Police, Gestapo, and Persecution”, occupies 300 square metres on the first floor.

The exhibition follows police persecution from 1928 to 1984 through the Weimar Republic, the Nazi state, and the Federal Republic of Germany. It examines the Gestapo’s role in persecution and extermination policies across Württemberg, Hohenzollern, and beyond. Another focus traces changing treatment of minorities and the self-image of police officers under democratic and dictatorial regimes. Educational projects and guided tours explore the Nazi dictatorship and its ideology for children, teenagers, and other visitors.

The building housed Stuttgart police headquarters from 1928 to 1933 before becoming a Gestapo headquarters during the Nazi era. After the Second World War, police departments, a prison, and a police station occupied the building until 1984. A preservation campaign saved the wartime-damaged site from demolition during a redevelopment project. Temporary exhibitions complement the permanent galleries inside this surviving former police complex.