Filmmuseum Potsdam

Filmmuseum Potsdam occupies the former stables, known as the Marstall, within Potsdam’s historic Stadtschloss complex. Founded in 1981, it became Germany’s oldest film museum with its own collection. Its permanent exhibition, Dream Factory, follows one hundred years of Babelsberg filmmaking through objects, images, and interactive stations. Studio Babelsberg anchors the museum’s story of film production. Visitors encounter original props, costumes, set models, film technology, and material connected with Bioscop, Ufa, DEFA, and Studio Babelsberg. Changing exhibitions cover German and international film and media topics. The Marstall also contains a cinema presenting historical features, documentaries, selected contemporary productions, children’s films, and silent films with live organ music. The historic Welte cinema organ supplies that accompaniment. Foyer displays include a Bioscop projector and a special object, while the museum shop offers books, catalogues, posters, postcards, DVDs, and Blu-ray discs. The museum became part of Babelsberg Film University in 2011. Its collections trace filmmaking from first ideas and scripts through casting, costumes, sets, shooting, editing, sound, marketing, and awards. Family exhibitions add another format for younger visitors.