Tickets for Potsdam Walking Tour of Historic Old Town to Sanssouci

The state capital of Potsdam is just half an hour from Berlin - and with its parks, lakes and UNESCO World Heritage sites, it offers a unique oasis just outside the metropolis. Discover the historic city center, explore the fascinating palaces and gardens, and experience the most important collection of Impressionist art in Germany at the Museum Barberini: more than 100 works by 20 artists, including Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Gustave Caillebotte and Paul Signac, take visitors through the history of French Impressionism in the Hasso Plattner Collection. With 38 paintings by Claude Monet, nowhere in Europe outside of Paris are more works by this artist gathered in one place. Potsdam is thus one of the world's most important centers of Impressionist landscape painting.

The popular Pergamon Museum in Berlin is a great solution to a first world problem; it was built because there wasn't enough room in the nearby Bode Museum for all its artistic and archaeological relics. Construction carried on even through WWI and the great inflation of the 1920s. The then completed Pergamon was also badly damaged at the end of WWII (though fortunately its contents escaped damage).

In 1999 Museum Island (Museumsinsel in German) was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It sure deserves the distinction: this small island on the Spree has a singular collection of buildings, all filled with art and cultural artifacts. The five museums are: Altes Museum (Old Museum), Neues Museum (New Museum), Alte Nationalgalerie (Old National Gallery), Bode Museum, and Pergamon Museum. Each museum is a world-renowned storehouse of works of significant cultural value. Taken together this is one of the finest museum complexes in the world.