Out and About in Potsdam

For this tour, plan in a full day. With the castles and parks Glienicke, Babelsberg, Sanssouci and Charlottenhof, the Neues Palais, the Neuer Garten with Schloss Cecilienhof, the Dorfanlage Bornstedt, and the Russian colony Alexandrowka, Potsdam is a romantic city with a fascinating UNESCO World Heritage cultural landscape.

Ideally, you can discover all this and more with a bus tour. The Best of Potsdam Tour by City Circle or Potsdam City Tour Hop-on Hop-off offers you the perfect opportunity to get off at various stops along the way, spend a while at the places that particularly fascinate you and get back on again on their next ride. If you get off at Jägertor or at the Brandenburg Gate Potsdam, you‘re not far from the Stiftung Gedenkstätte Lindenstraße. It commemorates Potsdam‘s darkest period in history but also the overcoming of the dictatorship.

It‘s also worth hopping off at Schloss Charlottenhof. Here you are just a few minutes by foot from the Neues Palais, which you should definitely take the time to see so that you can admire the magnificent architecture, park, and Schloss Sanssouci. You have a wonderful view of the Belvedere Castle on the Pfingstberg just 20 minutes away. Use the combo ticket sanssouci+ so that you can visit nearly all the castles in the Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten in Potsdam in one day. It‘s also worth visiting the Potsdam Museum–Forum für Kunst und Geschichte, where city history is presented across 1,300 square metres with works from local figures from the 19th to the 21st centuries. The artistically constructed Baroque building is glowing since its renovation in 2012.

The Potsdam tour ends with a real museum highlight, the Museum Barberini. This Italian-style, reconstructed community centre hosts alternating exhibits with loans from international museums and collections. And if you‘re travelling with your family, visit the Biosphere Potsdam. If the weather is less than ideal, visit the Naturkundemuseum Potsdam and stroll through Brandenburg‘s animal life, as well as the Filmmuseum Potsdam. Germany‘s oldest film museum has a permanent exhibiton the long history of the Babelsberg Film Studio. Take a peek behind the scenes at the Potsdam City Palace.