After years in the making, Potsdam’s Barberini Museum – spearheaded by patron and billionaire Hasso Plattner – is opening its doors. Instead, he decided to bestow the city of Potsdam with a museum to share his collection. The fact that he collected such impressionistic works – of this quality and in this scope – astounded me,” Ortrud Westheider, director of the Barberini Museum, told DW. A labor of loveAnd what a majestic place to display those works: the Barberini Palace, now home to Potsdam’s Barberini Museum. The Barberini Museum is open to the public as of January 23.

Source: Daily News Egypt January 21, 2017 01:00 UTC