Highlighted events in Potsdam
The Dream Factory – 100 Years of Film in Babelsberg
25.05.2021 - 31.12.2024Despite rapid technological progress, the making of films stil follows traditional patterns that even children are able to understand – and this is why the process of filmmaking is at the core of the exhibition. The starting point of every film production is an idea. Finding a producer for the project sets the stage for a long process that includes casting, costumes and make-up, set construction, shooting, editing and sound design. Interactive modules allow them to find out in a playful, intuitive way what it’s like to sing a long with Zara Leander or to replace actors in a casting session. Besides, the exhibition provides young people looking for professional perspectives with hands-on information on jobs in the media business. A computer-based information system and an exhibition guide shed light on the background of film production in Babelsberg, putting films and those who worked on them into their historical context.
View the eventImpressionism. The Hasso Plattner collection.
22.05.2021 - 31.12.2023Museum Barberini shows impessionist paintings from the extensive collection of Hasso Plattner, the museum´s founder: More than 100 masterpieces by Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir, Berthe Morisot, Alfred Sisley, Camille Pissarro, Henri-Edmond Cross, Paul Signac and by other impressionist and postimpressionist painters are on permanent display. With 34 paintings it is the largest european collection of Claude Monet´s painting outside Paris and Potsdam becomes one of the most important centres of impressionist landscape painting worldwide.
View the eventImpressionism. The Hasso Plattner collection.
08.07.2023 - 22.10.2023Museum Barberini shows impessionist paintings from the extensive collection of Hasso Plattner, the museum´s founder: More than 100 masterpieces by Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir, Berthe Morisot, Alfred Sisley, Camille Pissarro, Henri-Edmond Cross, Paul Signac and by other impressionist and postimpressionist painters are on permanent display. With 34 paintings it is the largest european collection of Claude Monet´s painting outside Paris and Potsdam becomes one of the most important centres of impressionist landscape painting worldwide.
View the eventGuided City Walk - City Stroll through Potsdam
21.01.2023 10:00 - 26.11.2023 12:00An entertaining journey through the past with a view into the Potsdam of tomorrow: Starting at the Old Market, the historic centre of Potsdam, which shines in new splendour with the Nikolai Church and its reconstructed baroque buildings, the Barberini Museum and the State Parliament in the shell of the old City Palace. Through the baroque city centre you will pass Potsdam's shopping mall the "Broadway", to the Dutch Quarter. Small shops, cafés and bars characterize the flair of this unique Dutch settlement outside the Netherlands. Here the tour ends. The city tour takes place in January, February, March, November on Saturday and Sunday and from April to October daily. From April to October the city walk is also guided in English and German every 2nd and 4th Saturday of the month. Meeting point: 10.00 a.m. Tourist Information Centre Old Market Duration: 2 hours
View the eventSunday guided tour: Italian royal dream and phoenix from the ashes
07.05.2023 11:00 - 01.10.2023 11:00With the Belvedere Pfingstberg, Friedrich Wilhelm IV wanted to fulfill his great "Italian dream" in Potsdam. Inspired by Roman architecture, an imposing viewing palace was built, which remained a popular destination for Potsdam and Berliners until after World War II. With the division of Germany after the war, the Pfingstberg ensemble is suddenly located in the border area of the GDR and increasingly falls into disrepair. It was not until the commitment of young Potsdam residents at the end of the 1980s that the unique site began to be saved. A member of the Förderverein Pfingstberg e.V. guides guests through this eventful history of the Pfingstberg. Anecdotes, individual expertise and self-experience around Karl Friedrich Schinkel's first work, the Pomonatempel, the Belvedere viewing castle and the garden monument created by Peter Joseph Lenné are the focus of the tour.
View the eventApple festival in the Volkspark - A festival for the whole family!
30.09.2023 10:00 - 01.10.2023 19:00The apple is the Germans' favourite fruit and a culinary all-rounder. With around 20,000 varieties worldwide, there is a true variety of flavours to discover this weekend! Pomologists will present local and almost forgotten varieties for nibbling and give worth knowing tips for your own harvest. And to the delight of all medieval fans, the park becomes the scene of a medieval spectacle with musicians, knights, Vikings, jugglers, puppet shows and colourful market life.
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