P71- Germany - Bode Museum

Bodemuseum, Berlin, Germany ( UNESCO WHS )


The Bode Museum belongs to the group of museums on Museum Island in Berlin and is a historically preserved building. The museum was designed by architect Ernst von Ihne and completed in 1904. Originally called the Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum after Emperor Frederick III, the museum was renamed in honor of its first curator, Wilhelm von Bode, in 1956.

Closed for repairs since 1997, the museum was reopened on October 18, 2006. It is now the home for a collection of sculptures, Byzantine art, and coins and medals.

The sculpture collection shows art of the Christian Orient (with an emphasis on Coptic Egypt), sculptures from Byzantium and Ravenna, sculptures of the Middle Ages, the Italian Gothic, and the early Renaissance. Late German Gothic works are also represented by Tilman Riemenschneider, the south German Renaissance, and Prussian baroque art up to the 18th century. In the future selected works of the Gemäldegalerie will be integrated into the sculpture collection. This is reminiscent of William von Bode's concept of "style rooms", in which sculptures, paintings, and crafts are viewed together, as was usual in upper middle-class private collections.

The Münzkabinett ("coin cabinet"), currently housed at the neighboring Pergamon Museum, is one of the world's largest numismatic collections. Its range spans from the beginning of minting in the seventh century B.C. in Asia Minor up to the present day. With approximately 500,000 items the collection is a unique archive for historical research, while its medal collection makes it an important art exhibition at the same time.

柏林博物館島（德语：Museumsinsel）位於德國柏林市中心，施普雷島（Spreeinsel）的北端。柏林所有的博物館歷史都由此發展而来，也是柏林的旅遊重點。1999年，因建築與文化的結合，柏林博物館島被聯合國教科文組織指定为世界文化遺產。

柏林著名的博德博物館在經過了近六年的整修之後，重新向公眾敞開了大門。這座新巴洛克式的建築坐落在施普雷河畔的柏林博物館島上。館中收藏了1700多個雕塑，300多件拜占庭時期的藝術作品和150幅著名的油畫，堪稱擁有世界上最多雕塑收藏品的博物館之一。

References sources : wikipedia, 世界风情