Berlin - Bode Museum Bodemuseum

In Berlin's Bode Museum there is a Children's Gallery, which has been transferred from the Old Museum. In accordance with a principle established by Bode, 19th C. period furniture and sculpture are also displayed.

The Museum of Prehistory in Berlin's Bode Museum extends to five rooms, displaying changing selections from its stock of exhibits. It gives an oversight of man's development in Europe up to the sixth/seventh C. Special mention should be made of the "Collection of Trojan Antiquities," donated to the museum by Heinrich Schliemann. Further sections of this museum can be found in the museum of the same name in Charlottenburg Palace.

The Picture Gallery on the upper floor of Berlin's Bode Museum illustrates the development of painting from the 15th to the 18th C. in Germany, Italy and the Netherlands, and also includes examples of 17th and 18th C. English and French paintings.

The Sculpture collection of Berlin's Bode Museum suffered heavy losses during the Second World War, and some of the items are now in the sculpture gallery of the Dahlem Museums. The collection is particularly strong in architectural sculptures from Germany, the Low Countries, Venice and Florence, covering the Romantic to Early Classical periods. Other fields well represented are German, Dutch and Flemish sculpture. There are some 450 works of the Late Gothic Period (figures supporting a pulpit, by Anton Pilgram, from the collegiate church at Öhringen, c. 1485-90; a carved altar from Antwerp, 16th C., etc.). Particularly famous are the works by 15th to 17th C. Italian masters (including Donatello, Antonio Rosselino, Adriaen de Vries), the south German schools of the 14th to 16th C. (Tilmann Riemenschneider, Franconian and Bavarian masters) and the German masters of the 17th and 18th C. (including Hans Krumper's "Baptism of Christ" and fragments of the Mannheim Altar by Paul Egell).