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Museum Barberini

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    The Museum Barberini in Potsdam's city center on the Alter Markt.

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    Visitors stand in the foyer of the Museum Barberini.

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    Visitors to an exhibition at the Museum Barberini in Potsdam. (archive picture)

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    Alte Fahrt with Museum Barberini in Potsdam.

The Museum Barberini in Potsdam presents various themes, artists and eras in changing exhibitions, focusing on the Impressionist period, art of the GDR and post-1989 art.

Museum Barberini

The Barberini Palace, which was rebuilt between 2013 and 2016, has been home to the Museum Barberini since 2017. The classicist-baroque palace was built in 1772, but had to be demolished due to severe damage during the Second World War. The initiative for the reconstruction came from the Hasso Plattner Foundation. Based on Hasso Plattner's collection, the museum shows three changing permanent exhibitions, supplemented and expanded by loans from German and international museums.

The Hasso Plattner Collection

The collection, which forms the basis for the Museum Barberini, includes Impressionist paintings, paintings from the Leipzig School and art from the GDR. Among the artists represented in the collection are Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Edvard Munch and Alfred Sisley. The collection also includes works by Gerhard Richter, Bernhard Heisig, Werner Tübke and Martin Kippenberger.

A new look at old works

By modifying the exhibitions, the Museum Barberini aims to find new perspectives on the artworks and contextualize them differently. Symposia and workshops are held before each exhibition opening to explore new perspectives. To this end, the Museum Barberini has also developed an app that allows visitors to locate the artworks in advance during a visit or to listen to guided tours and expert interviews on their own schedule.

The rooms of the Museum Barberini

The three-storey building of the Museum Barberini has several exhibition halls, an event room and an entrance foyer. Museum education takes place in the basement. A museum café, which also offers chairs on the market square in good weather, invites visitors to linger.

Exhibition-Highlights

Impressionism. The Hasso Plattner Collection

The Museum Barberini in Potsdam permanently displays the extensive collection of Impressionist paintings by museum founder Hasso Plattner: over 100 masterpieces by Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir, Berthe Morisot, Alfred Sisley, Camille Pissarro, Henri-Edmond... more

The Honest Eye: The Impressionist Pissarro

Over 100 works from 50 international collections provide a well-founded overview of Pissarro's entire oeuvre and at the same time show the social utopian ideas of his art. more

Unicorn: The Mythical Beast in Art

The unicorn has stimulated the imagination like no other animal. It has been documented in many cultures for centuries. Its fascination continues to this day. more

Unicorn

The unicorn has stimulated the imagination like no other animal. It has been documented in many cultures for centuries. Its fascination continues to this day. The mythical animal is a multi-facetted symbol that emanates associative energy. Tracks of the... more

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 Address
Humboldtstraße 5-6
14467 Potsdam
Phone
+49 (0)331 97 99 21 85
Internet
www.museum-barberini.com
Opening Hours
Wednesday to Monday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., Tuesday closed
Admission Fee
Weekdays €16, concessions €10, weekends €18
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Last edited: 18 March 2025