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There are 5 museums on Museum Island (only a couple of minutes from our accommodation), so it wasn't easy to decide which to visit today. We eventually opted for the Bode-Museum, because it included Byzantine art, as well as an extensive sculpture and collections. The building itself is quite beautiful and we ended up spending over 4 hours there (in an uncrowded atmosphere). The Byzantine collection was not as extensive as we had hoped, but what was there was impressive. It included a whole mosaic from Ravenna (a place that we would have liked to visit but it was so far out of the way that it was impossible). There were sculptures and carvings from various eras, including interestingly to Coptic period in Egypt (up to the 7
th century). There was a lot of Gothic, Baroque and Renaissance work, mostly sculptures but also including some artworks. These came from most of the main European countries, including Italy (going to some extent to remedy our omission to visit the Uffizi!) and of course Germany.
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| Added - entrance foyer in Bode |
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