Project Overview
The Museum Barberini in Potsdam, Germany is a new art museum located at the city’s Old Market Square that officially opened to the public in January 2017, following nearly three and a half years of construction. Funded by SAP founder and patron of the arts Hasso Plattner, the museum is a reconstruction of the Barberini Palace, which was mostly destroyed by bombing in 1945, and shows an ever-changing selection of German and international art.
The museum includes 17 exhibition halls spread out over three floors and a total exhibition area of 2,200 square meters. Featuring high ceilings with vaults and oak parquet as well as state-of-the-art technical equipment, the exhibition halls blend baroque architecture with modern technology. This combination is especially prominent in a multifunctional auditorium located on the museum’s second floor where a large Planar® TWA Series fine pitch LED video wall (4.8m x 2.7m) with a 1.2mm pixel pitch (TWA1.2) is centrally placed, much like an exhibition object.
