Art museum on Potsdam's Alter Markt with the Hasso Plattner Impressionism collection and major international exhibitions that change every year.
July 4, 2026 – October 11, 2026
The first comprehensive Signac exhibition in Germany in 30 years, with more than 90 works, including pictures by Seurat, Cross, Luce and van Rysselberghe. It presents Signac as a painter, theorist and networker of Neo-Impressionism.
November 7, 2026 – February 21, 2027
Anniversary exhibition marking the museum's tenth year: it shows how friends, critics, collectors and dealers helped Impressionism achieve worldwide renown, with loans from cities including Chicago, London, New York, Paris and Tokyo.
March 20, 2027 – June 20, 2027
The first exhibition in Germany on Catalan Modernisme between about 1880 and 1914 – with Gaudí and Picasso as well as artists little known in Germany, such as Ramon Casas and Santiago Rusiñol.
July 24, 2027 – October 24, 2027
A portrait of the French avant-garde artist of the 1920s whose pastel-colored images of women present femininity as a changeable role. Many of the loans come from the Musée Marie Laurencin in Tokyo.
November 20, 2027 – February 20, 2028
An announced exhibition on the work of the Swiss painter and printmaker Félix Vallotton.
Museum Barberini stands on the site of the palace of the same name that Frederick the Great had built on the Alter Markt in 1771/72, right next to the Stadtschloss (City Palace). The architects Georg Christian Unger and Carl von Gontard modeled it on the Baroque Palazzo Barberini in Rome. In the mid-19th century, Friedrich Wilhelm IV had the building expanded with side wings and halls used by Potsdam associations for concerts, exhibitions and lectures; later it housed, among other things, a public library, a youth hostel and the registry office.
The palace was destroyed in the air raid on Potsdam in April 1945, and the ruin was cleared in 1948. For decades the site remained a green space and parking lot, and for a time a temporary theater stood there. As part of the restoration of Potsdam's historic center, the Hasso Plattner Foundation made the reconstruction possible: from 2013 to 2016, a museum with a historic facade and a modern interior was built to designs by Hilmer & Sattler und Albrecht, with around 2,200 m² of exhibition space.
The museum opened in January 2017 and quickly established itself as one of the most visited art museums in Germany. Since 2020, it has permanently displayed the collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painting of SAP co-founder Hasso Plattner, with an exceptionally large group of works by Monet. In addition, the museum stages up to three major temporary exhibitions a year with international partners – from Rembrandt and Picasso to Gerhard Richter – accompanied by an extensive education program.
| Adults | €16 |
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| Reduced | €10University students, trainees, people with a disability (degree of disability 50 or higher), volunteers (FSJ/FÖJ/FKJ, BFD), museum trainees, and holders of the artCard, Berlin WelcomeCard, Ehrenamtskarte Berlin-Brandenburg (volunteer card), SPSG annual pass or the sanssouci+/charlottenburg+ combination ticket |
| Children & teens | freefree up to age 17 · Children and teens under 18 and school students over 18 free; a free timed-entry ticket is required from age 2. |
| Seniors | –No discount for retirees. |
| Visitors with disabilities | €10companion free · Reduced from degree of disability 50; companion ("B" marker) free. |
| Students & apprentices | €10Free for all university students from October 1 to November 30, 2026; everyone under 25 free on Thursdays from 14:00 (Hausticket U 25). |
| Groups (10+ people) | €14 per personFrom 10 people: Mon, Wed–Fri €14, Sat/Sun and public holidays €16 per person. Group tour (50 minutes, max. 20 people) €105 plus €10 admission per person; tours by external guides not permitted. |
| Families | –No family ticket; children and teens under 18 get free admission. |
Sat, Sun and public holidays €18; from 17:30 €10. Combination ticket with DAS MINSK Kunsthaus €20 (reduced €12), valid on two consecutive opening days. Annual passes: Barberini Friend €40, for two €70, under 35 €20; Jahreskarte Plus including DAS MINSK €55 (under 35: €27). Free admission for groups including recipients of ALG I (unemployment benefit), Bürgergeld (citizen's income), basic income support, social assistance and asylum seekers' benefits, as well as ICOM and Museumsbund members. Free admission for everyone under 25 on Thursdays from 14:00.
Certified under "Reisen für Alle" (Travel for All). Step-free access at the main entrance, tactile guidance system from the entrance to the ticket desk and elevator, lowered ticket counter, elevators with voice announcements and Braille buttons, accessible restrooms in the basement and in the restaurant. Free loan wheelchairs, rollators and folding stools. The museum's accessible parking spaces must be reserved at least three working days in advance. Texts in Einfache Sprache (plain German) in the app and media library, videos in DGS (German Sign Language), tours in plain language and for people with dementia, and "Bei Anruf Kultur" telephone tours.
Great for kids & families
| Kids’ admission | free up to age 17 |
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Daily tours and workshops for children, including mini workshops (ages 3–5), children's art activities (ages 6–11), the family format "120 Minuten Kunst" (120 minutes of art, ages 7 and up) and school holiday workshops; children's audio guide in the free Barberini app. Strollers are allowed in all rooms, and loan strollers are available free of charge. Free admission under 18.
Potsdam, Alter Markt/Landtag
Tram 91, 92, 93, 96, 99 and bus 604, 614, 650 to Alter Markt/Landtag; by rail to Potsdam Hauptbahnhof (S7, RE, RB, IC).
Parking available
No dedicated visitor parking; the museum refers visitors to the P+R Bahnhofspassagen parking garage (Babelsberger Str. 16), the Am Lustgarten parking lot (Lustgartenwall) and the Wilhelm-Galerie parking garage (Platz der Einheit). Tour buses: Bassinplatz, Charlottenstraße and Lustgarten parking lot. Accessible parking spaces by reservation at least three working days in advance.
Barberini Café & Restaurant (Mon, Wed–Sun 10:00–19:00); in the warmer months also a café in the pavilion in the museum courtyard overlooking the Alte Fahrt; museum shop. Free coat check and lockers – bags, backpacks and jackets must be checked, and bags are inspected at the entrance.
Events for companies and institutions outside opening hours (usually from 19:00) with exclusive tours: foyer, auditorium (up to 190 seats), courtyard, exhibition galleries, atelier and studio as well as café and pavilion, bookable individually or in combination. The restaurant can also be booked separately outside opening hours. Contact: events@museum-barberini.de.
Inquiries & details| Guided tours | yes · approx. 50 min |
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| Audio guide | yes (DE, EN, FR, IT, UK, PL) |
| School programs | yes |
| Photography | Allowed for private purposes, partly restricted for copyright reasons; posting on the internet does not count as private use |
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