The case files
Real evidence and investigation documents.
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Yes, but at set and limited times, and you may be asked for identification at the gate since the site is a working facility. The museum is not open daily like the city's ordinary museums — check the schedule before going, since travelling out to Alsterdorf and finding it shut wastes half an hour each way.
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Hamburg's police museum sits inside the police academy itself in the Alsterdorf district, documenting the history of policing in the city since the eighteenth century. The exhibits cover uniforms across the eras, vehicles, communications equipment and forensic investigation apparatus. Its strongest section covers the major crimes in Hamburg's history: real case files with their evidence, photographs and investigation documents, including serial murder cases that gripped German public opinion. This section is direct and unsoftened, which is why parts of it carry an age restriction. The museum does not avoid the difficult part of its own history: a full section addresses the Hamburg police's role under the Nazi regime — its participation in deportations and persecution, and how many of its officers returned to service after the war without ever being held to account. That self-confrontation is rare in police museums generally, and it is the best thing here.
Real evidence and investigation documents.
A reckoning rare in police museums.
Carl-Cohn-Strasse 39, 22297 Hamburg