Location: Potsdam
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7 Specialty Museums in Potsdam That You Shouldn't Miss
Potsdam was the residence of the Prussian kings and German Kaisers until 1918. It is the site of the parks and palaces of Sanssouci, the largest World Heritage Site in Germany. The city is now the capital of the German federal state of Brandenburg and a home to three public colleges and a major film production studio.
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1. Extavium
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4.5 based on 15 reviews
Extavium: Knowledge at your fingertips: The Extavium offers an outside-the-classroom-experience for anybody who is or wants to become interested in the natural sciences. This experience will spark everybody's interest in the natural sciences and give insight into the complex processes of nature. With its interactive exhibition and many various workshops the museum has been an essential part of the scientific community in and around Potsdam for ten years. Is it possible to freeze your own shadow? And what do marshmallows have to do with air pressure? These are only some of the questions that you will find answers to when visiting the museum. All objects within the exhibition can be explored and lead to unexpected and surprising results.
2. URANIA-Planetarium
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4.5 based on 6 reviews
3. Gedenk- und Begegnungsstatte Leistikowstrasse
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4.5 based on 32 reviews
The Leistikow Strasse memorial commemorates the former Soviet military counterintelligence central remand prison that was once located here. There are few historical prisons so authentically preserved. While the mass cells and facilities in the upper floors reveal the conditions in the 1970s, the primitive basement cells with their crude wooden benches testify to the privations endured by prisoners well into the 1950s. Numerous inscriptions carved into the walls by detainees from that time speak of isolation and desperation as well as resilience. The permanent exhibition is illustrated with photographs, endowed with historical artefacts and equipped with media stations that reveal the prison’s story within the wider drama of the Cold War. Fifty biographies have been unearthed, showing just how many different people became inmates, from Nazi-era perpetrators to spies – both real and falsely accused - and Soviet army deserters. Some of them give eyewitness accounts of their fates.
Reviewed By 637JonnyW - Berlin, Germany
I booked both tours, which our fantastic guide Armin combined into one big tour for us. Armin gave us a tour of the former sealed-off Soviet town within Potsdam, gave us a wider context before the Soviets arrived, explained how the prisons worked, gave detailed biographies of some prisoners, and how a lot of the information available to us today came from one important defector. Our group was made up of around 15 professional tour guides working in Berlin and Potsdam, and Armin impressed even us! Couldn't recommend booking a private tour here enough. Thanks, Armin!
4. Filmmuseum Potsdam
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4.0 based on 119 reviews
Reviewed By gregoryjarosch50 - Vilnius, Lithuania
Movie making can be likened to flirting with one or more cameras aimed at you where you are trying to show off your best or worst sides or brightest or saddest moods in a make believe or realistic setting - dramatic, comedy, or something in between, on a set or on location. "Silence, and action ......and cut" and so it goes a collection of short segments combined together to produce the tear jerker or belly laughter, anger or happiness. This is where the Filmmuseum Potsdam comes in set as it is so close to where momentous decisions were being made that would impact the world for decades to come. The various collections are housed in a permanent and a feature collection sections over two floors. There is a line up of about the 20 best known male German stars and likewise 20 best known female German stars, from the earliest to current times. On one side you see the stars as young and on the other side as much older. There is a camera equipment and stage sets and costumes exhibitions on one side of the hall and on the other side a collection of posters, photos, posters and other memorabilia. The beauty of such museums is that one can come to a particular exhibit and contemplate what happened real time when the movie was being shot. There is an attached full sized (like the large olden type cinemas) cinema showning movies and you can wander in and out from museum proper to cinema as your fancy takes, being careful not to disrupt other patrons. A lot of effort goes into making movies and especially to make them look effortless in final product. The techniques and equipment and stories of the people who made and make movies are a rich source of cultural introspection that particularly foreigners can appreciate. Go see the way movies were and are made and let your imagination loose. And action Greg J
5. The Historic Windmill
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4.0 based on 354 reviews
Reviewed By dhs9909 - Bern, Switzerland
The Historische Mühle is another scenic landmark at Sanssouci Park. You would think of yourself being in the Netherlands once you see the mill
6. Jan Bouman Haus
7. Naturkundemuseum Potsdam
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3.5 based on 13 reviews
