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.

56 pictures related to this museum

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