Store Kapel (Big Chapel) by Frederik Draiby originates from the opening of the cemetery and contains 252 seats.

Henry From and Christian Frederik Møller is interred in Vestre Kirkegård.

The second world war left a notable impact on Vestre Kirkegård.

There are 17 protected graves belonging to resistance fighters who died in the Neuengamme concentration camp and a memorial wall has been erected by Aarhus Municipality to commemorate 15 of its citizens that died in German concentration camps and were buried elsewhere.

There is a grave site and memorial for 13 victims of a 1944 explosion in Aarhus harbor who could not be identified.