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.

55 pictures related to this museum

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