Industriesalon Schöneweide

The Industriesalon Schöneweide has set itself the mission of making the significant industrial heritage of Berlin-Schöneweide visible on-site, thereby strengthening the area for the long term. Through technology, history, lectures, discussions, personal recollections, and music, the Industriesalon serves as a place for encounters and education. The approximately 400-square-meter hall—which, until the fall of the Berlin Wall, housed the preparatory workshop for the Oberschöneweide Transformer Works (TRO)—now provides space for exhibitions, functioning as an open-access depot, a salon, and a visitor center. Visitors can explore the former company museum of the "VEB Werk für Fernsehelektronik" (WF)—once the largest factory in East Berlin, with a workforce of around 9,000. A permanent exhibition offers an overview of the development of the Schöneweide industrial area, tracing its history from the Wilhelminian era to the companies active there today. The visitor center’s information desk provides details on tourism offerings in the Treptow-Köpenick district, as well as information regarding Berlin’s industrial heritage.