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Museum Barberini is an art museum in Potsdam, opened in 2017 inside a reconstruction of the 18th-century Palast Barberini on the Alter Markt. Centred on the collection of founder Hasso Plattner, it presents three temporary exhibitions a year ranging from Old Masters to Impressionism and contemporary art.

Sanssouci is the Rococo summer palace Frederick the Great had built between 1745 and 1747 on a terraced vineyard hill in Potsdam, designed by Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff. Containing just ten principal rooms, the single-storey villa was meant as a private retreat, and gives its name to the surrounding park of palaces and follies.

The New Palace is a large Baroque palace on the western edge of Sanssouci Park, built from 1763 to 1769 for Frederick the Great after the Seven Years' War. It holds grand banquet halls, galleries of 18th-century art and a Baroque palace theatre, and is considered the last great Prussian Baroque palace.