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.

15 pictures related to this museum

A bull-man on a coin from Gela	Magnus Maximus	Coin from Cyrene, sylphium	Carausius
Magnentius	Artabanus IV	Johannes	Coin of Nectanebo II, showing hieroglyfs signifying “nefr nub”, good gold
Laelianus	Coin from Acragas	Caracalla as Alexander	Coin of Archelaus of Cappadocia
A Persian gold piece (daric)	Vaballathus	Syracusan coin, showing a chariot with maritime symbols, commemorating the naval victory