Berlin, Bode-Museum

I am just back from a quick visit to Berlin. Although I had visited the city several times before, I had never been to the Bode-Museum. Stupid me: it is one of the most beautiful museums I’ve ever been to. It has a great collection of painting and sculpture, and four rooms of Late Ancient and Byzantine art. Among the highlights are the apse of a church from Ravenna, a gambling machine from Constantinople, a fifth-century relief showing Saint Simeon, and beautiful ivories.

The greatest delight, however, turned out to be four rooms with coins and medals. There were hundreds of them, superbly displayed; I might have spent several hours over there, but at ten o’ clock in the evening, the museum closed. The Bodemuseum is really worth a couple of hours, and don’t postpone it until your fifth visit to Berlin.

This museum was visited in 2010.

48 pictures related to this museum

Valentinian I and Valens	Orodes III	Phraates III	Coin of Phraates II
A Persian gold piece (daric)	Phraates IV	Mithradates I the Great	Medaillon of Alexander, with the abduction Europa on his helmet
Coin of Archelaus of Cappadocia	Vologases IV	Licinius	Laelianus
Artabanus IV	Shapur III	Vonones I	Vologases III
Hormizd IV	Tanit on a Carthaginian coin	Partharmaspates	Bistam
Orodes I	Coin of Seleucus VI Epiphanes (emergency currency)	Florian	Magnentius
Cleopatra VII Philopator	Buran	Coin of Macedonia Prima	Vaballathus
Coin of Nectanebo II, showing hieroglyfs signifying “nefr nub”, good gold	Medaillon of Alexander with the zodiac on his shield	Vazdgard III	Magnus Maximus
Coin of Artabanus I	Coin from Cyrene, sylphium	Osroes I	Johannes
Caracalla as Alexander	Vonones II	Coin with Phidias' statue of Jupiter in Olympia	Carausius
Phraataces	Coin from Acragas	Syracusan coin, showing a chariot with maritime symbols, commemorating the naval victory	Zamasp
Medaillon of Alexander with diadem	Artabanus III, coin	Tiridates I	Vologases V