Sanssouci Palace
Frederick the Great’s summer residence is noted for its elegance & stylish display of grandeur.
Potsdam Highlights
Museum Barberini
Museum featuring an impressive collection of impressionist & post-impressionist paintings.
Cecilienhof Country House
Venue of the 1945 Potsdam Conference on what to do with Germany.
New Chambers of Sanssouci
Frederician rococo palace featuring a series of splendid rooms.
Picture Gallery of Sanssouci
Frederick the Great’s picture gallery, home to Caravaggio’s Doubting Thomas.
New Palace
Frederick the Great’s really big palace.
Further Recommendations
Babelsberg Palace
Gothic Revival castle.
Belvedere on Klausberg
Belvedere on Pfingstberg
Biosphere Potsdam
Indoor rainforest.
Bornstedt Crown Estate
The Italian village of Potsdam.
Botanic Garden
Brandenburg Gate
The other one.
Charlottenhof Villa
Neoclassical villa by architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel.
Chinese House in Sanssouci Park
Chinoiserie rococo pavilion.
Church of Peace
Byzantine Revival church by architect Ludwig Persius.
Church of the Redeemer
Byzantine Revival church by architect Ludwig Persius.
City Palace
Ceci n’est pas un château.
Das Minsk Kunsthaus
Museum dedicated to art from the former GDR.
Dutch Quarter
Small neighbourhood with a distinctive Dutch look & feel.
Einstein Tower
Solar observatory by architect Erich Mendelsohn.
Extavium
Science museum for kids.
Film Museum Potsdam
Museum dedicated to the Babelsberg studios.
Flatow Tower
46-m-high Gothic Revival observation tower.
Glienicke Bridge
Cold War spy swap site.
Historic Windmill
Windmills look better when they stand next to farmhouses.
House of Brandenburg-Prussian History
Regional history museum.
Jan Bouman House
Small museum dedicated to the history of Potsdam’s Dutch Quarter.
Karl Foerster House
Home & garden of plantsman Karl Foerster.
Leistikowstrasse Memorial
Former Soviet remand prison.
Lindenstrasse Memorial
Former Nazi, Soviet & Stasi prison.
Marble House
Neoclassical palace.
Museum Alexandrowka
Former Russian colony.
Museum Fluxus
Museum dedicated to the Fluxus art movement of the sixties.
Naturkundemuseum Potsdam
Natural history museum.
Orangery Palace
Palace featuring an exhibition of some fifty 19th-century copies of paintings by Raphael.
Potsdam Museum
Art & local history museum.
St Nicholas Church
Neoclassical church by architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel.
Villa Schöningen
Contemporary art gallery by architect Ludwig Persius.