BODE MUSEUM

Description

Essentials about the Bode Museum in brief

The Bode Museum is one of the top addresses in Berlin’s art and museum scene. Picturesquely located on the northern tip of the Spree Island, the Bode Museum is one of the five buildings on Berlin’s Museum Island and is thus also a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Today, the museum houses a sculpture collection with works from various eras, the Museum of Byzantine Art with objects from the 3rd to the 15th century, and the Coin Cabinet comprising half a million coins and medals.

The history of the Bode Museum

The conception of the museum, which for the first time presented the so-called “high arts” of painting and sculpture on an equal footing, goes back to ideas of Crown Princess Victoria at the end of the 19th century. It was the art historian Wilhelm von Bode who finally put these ideas into practice. In 1904, the Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum, built in the Renaissance style and renamed the Bode-Museum in GDR times, opened its doors.

The highlights of the Bode Museum

Highlights of the Bode Museum’s exhibition are the ancient sarcophagi from Rome, the collection of Greek silver coins, the glazed terracottas by Luca della Robbia, the marble Pazzi Madonna by Donatello and the sculpture “Dancer” by Antonio Canova. A visit to the Bode Museum is also recommended for people who are more enthusiastic about architecture than the contents of the exhibition. With its magnificent rooms with marble floors and noble coffered ceilings, the museum is one of the most beautiful of its kind.