The Bode-Museum looks to appear suddenly from the water. It sits at the top of the Museum Island - an island in the centre of Berlin where there are numerous museums - looking as if it were the bow of a ship. The museum is recognizable by its immense cupola in brass, seemingly taunting the other museums around.

The architect Ernst von Ihne (1848-1917) designed the building with an odd positioning, as it seems to have its back to the other museums of the island. After a long restoration, the museum reopened its door in 2006 with a collection of 2000 works of art from the Antiquity period to the 19th century.

The museum is now home to a collection of sculptures, Byzantine art, and coins and medals. The presentation of the collections is both geographic and chronological. The Münzkabinett ("coin cabinet") is one of the world's largest numismatic collections.

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