Encountering the Originals

The Museum Barberini has been a household name in Potsdam since 2017. The art museum inspires audiences with masterpieces of Impressionism and Neo-Impressionism from Hasso Plattner's collection as well as first-class temporary exhibitions with loans from renowned international collections.

The museum’s digital offerings and a varied educational program make art accessible to everyone – whether for children, young people or adults, in several languages and barrier-free. Fascinating insights and inspiring activities invite visitors to explore and engage.

The Museum Barberini adds a major attraction to Potsdam as a city of art and culture.

At the heart of the museum is the Hasso Plattner Collection, which is on permanent display. It comprises 115 works by 23 artists, including Gustave Caillebotte, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Berthe Morisot and Paul Signac, as well as 40 paintings by Claude Monet alone - more than in any other European museum outside France. The collection follows the development of French Impressionism through to Classical Modernism.

Every year, up to three temporary exhibitions complement the museum's program, often inspired by the themes of the Collection. Academic symposia accompany the exhibitions and promote international exchange between curators and academics. With digital formats, the Barberini offers in-depth insights into the art and its stories. Whether filmed exhibition tours, podcasts, the Barberini Prolog, the “Collection Online” or 360° tours through the exhibitions - art can be explored online at any time in the media library on the website, in the Barberini app, or on social media.

The educational program makes art accessible to everyone, barrier-free and interactive - whether in guided tours, workshops or via the “Barberini Studio”, a new place for education and inspiration opened in 2025.

International guests benefit from a wide variety of guided tours and workshops in nine languages. Other key areas are inclusive approaches to art, which contain offers for blind and visually impaired visitors, for people with dementia and in plain language.

The Museum Barberini will continue to place Impressionist artists at the center of its work in the future: in 2025 and 2026, Camille Pissarro and Paul Signac will be the subject of comprehensive retrospectives, both of whom are represented by several works in the Hasso Plattner Collection. In 2026, Max Liebermann and Impressionism in Germany will be highlighted in an extensive exhibition. In 2027, the museum will celebrate its 10th anniversary and will present the Networks of Impressionism between artists, dealers, critics and mediators in a special exhibition of its own.