1. Statues of Africans in front of the New Palace

Statue of the Black figure on the right (Photo: Anna von Rath)

Statue of the Black figure on the left (Photo: Anna von Rath)

An eagle floors a dragon on the front side of the war medal for German soldiers who fought in China during the so-called Boxer War (Photo: Franco AQ)

“To the victorious fighters – China 1900-1901” written on the back side of the war medal for German soldiers in China (Photo: Franco AQ)

2. New Palace and the peak of Kilimanjaro

View of the Grotto Hall (Photo: Anna von Rath)

View of the miniature mountain on the northern wall of the Grotto Hall (Photo: Yann LeGall)

Close-up view and caption: “Peak of Kilimanjaro – 1890” (Foto: Yann LeGall)

Map of German East-Africa where the Kilimanjaro region is highlighted (Herrmann Julius Meyer – Meyers Geographischer Hand-Atlas)

Self celebratory drawing from Hans Meyer’s autobiographic book Zum Gipfel des Kilimandscharo

Picture of Hans Meyer’s basaltic stone he used as a paperweight (Wolfgang Benn for the Leibniz Institut für Länderkunde, catalogue of the exhibition Meyers Universum)

Uhuru Peak (Photo: Arne D., public domain)

3. Orangerie castle

The Orangerie with Chinese astronomical instruments around 1910 (Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg/Bildarchiv, Oberhofmarschallamt/ Verwaltung der Staatlichen Schlösser und Gärten)

Lease territory of “Kiaotschou Bay”, now Jiaozhou Bay (public domain)

The Chinese delegation that accompanied Prince Chun to Potsdam in 1901, standing in front of the Orangerie palace (Potsdamer Schlösser in Geschichte und Kunst, VEB F.A. Brockenhaus Verlag Leipzig, p. 153)

The astronomical instruments today, on the roof of the Beijing Observatory (Photo: Michael Gunther, Wikimedia Commons)

4. Chinese Tea House

Three figures with jackfruit (Photo: Yann LeGall)

Three figures with an alleged pineapple (Photo: Yann LeGall)

Statues drinking soup at the base of a column (Photo: Yann LeGall)

Musicians (Photo: Yann LeGall)

Musician (Photo: Yann LeGall)

Musician (Photo: Yann LeGall)

5. Incense urn from Siam

Portrait of King Chulalongkorn, a.k.a. Rama V. (public domain)

6. Sans-Souci in Milot, Haiti

Portrait of Henri Christophe, King of Haiti (Richard Evans, 1816)

The Sans-Souci palace in Milot (engraving by J. Clarke in Charles Mackenzie’s book Notes on Haiti made during a residence in that republic, 1830)

Lithographic drawing of Sans-Souci (G. Küstner in Carl Ritter’s book Naturhistorische Reise nach der westindischen Insel Hayti, 1836)

Front of the ruins of Sans-Souci (Photo: Rémi Kaupp)

View of the ruins of Sans-Souci from behind (Photo: Rémi Kaupp)

7. Rotary of the Oranges

Oil on canvas by Lieve Verschuier depicting the Brandenburg-Prussian fleet (1684). Title: Die kurbrandenburgische Flotte (Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten/Bildarchiv, Photo: Jörg P. Anders)

A door at the fort (Photo Kaja Schröter)

A view from the dungeon of Großfriedrichsburg (Photo Kaja Schröter)

Crenels and canons at Großfriedrichsburg (Photo Kaya Schröter)

8. Obelisk and Axis of Power

Portrait of Friedrich II and an African servant. Oil on canvas by Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff, entitled Friedrich II als Kronprinz (Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten/Bildarchiv, Photo: Daniel Lindner).

Bust of Roman Emperor Titus Vespanian (Photo: Miriam Redzwewsky)

Bust of an unknown African (Photo: Miriam Redzwewsky)

Bust of an unknown African (Photo: Miriam Redzwewsky)

9. Rotary with Black figures

View of the north-eastern part of the rotary (Photo: Yann LeGall)

Bust of the Roman philosopher Marcus Aurelius (Photo: Yann LeGall)

Bust of an unknown African (Photo: Yann LeGall)

Bust of an unknown African (Photo: Y. LeGall)

A scene of aristocrats smoking tobacco and served by three Black servants and another one wearing a turban. Oil on canvas by Paul Carl Leygebe entitled Das Tabakskollegium Friedrichs I (Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten/Bildarchiv, Photo: Gerhard Murza)

Portrait of Friedrich II as a young prince, his sister Wilhelmine, and an African servant holding an umbrella. Oil on canvas by Antoine Pesne, entitled Friedrich d. Große als Kronprinz und seine Schwester Wilhelmine (Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten/Bildarchiv, Photo: Jörg P. Anders)

Portrait of Prince Ludwig and an black servant. Oil on canvas by Antoine Pesne, entitled Prinz Friedrich Ludwig im Gartenwagen (Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten/Bildarchiv, Photo: Jörg P. Anders)

Painting of an African at court and a greyhound. Oil on canvas by Antoine Pesne from around 1720. The title contains the M*Word (Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten/Bildarchiv, Photo: Gerhard Murza)

Portrait of Princess Anna Elisabeth Luise and an African person holding an umbrella by Anna Rosina Lisiewska, entitled Prinzessin Anna Elisabeth Luise (Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten/Bildarchiv, Photo: Roland Handrick)

a. Botanical garden

Exterior of the Botanical Garden in Potsdam (Photo: Naomie Gramlich & Lydia Kray)

The Weltwischia plant in Potsdam’s botanical garden (Photo: Naomie Gramlich & Lydia Kray)

b. Tropical house

Stevia plant (Photo: Robert Lynch via Pixabay)

A bungo fruit, also called Saba comorensis (Photo: passengeronearth.com)

c. The Dutch quarter

The Dutch quarter during the Sinterklaas festivity in December 2019 (Photo: Lillian Dam Bracia)

A stand decorated with garlands depicting Black Pete and Sinterklaas (Photo: Lillian Dam Bracia, 2019)

The arrival of Sinterklaas in December 2019 in Potsdam, accompanied by “Soot Petes” (Photo: Lillian Dam Bracia)

d. Fung Asseng and Fung Ahok, two Chinese in Potsdam

Resumé of Friedrich Wilhelm Fung Asseng, written by himself in his translation of Martin Luther’s Small Catechism (Source: digital collection of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, 1828)

First page of Ahok’s translation of St. Mark’s Evangelium, 聖馬耳可傳福音書 (Source: digital collection of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, 1824)

First page of Asseng’s translation of St. Luke’s Evangelium, 聖傳福音路加 (Source: digital collection of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, 1828)

e. Garrison church

Glockenspiel of the former Garrison church, as shown in Potsdam before the reconstruction of the church (Photo: Yann LeGall)

f. Military Orphanage

Main building of the orphanage with the golden figure of Caritas on the top of the monopteros (Photo: Yann LeGall)