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

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