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

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