Bereichsnavigation 2. Ebene
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Bode-Museum, previously Kaiser Friedrich-Museum
Bereichsnavigation 2. Ebene
The palace like building of the Kaiser Friedrich Museum was erected in the Wilhelmian baroque style by Ernst Eberhard von Ihne between 1898 and 1904 where the Kupfergraben flows back into the River Spree at the northwest tip of the island, after the railway route which crosses the island and separates this site from the other museums, had been placed in operation in 1882. The entrance to this museum via the new Monbijou Bridge across the Spree opens up access to Museumsinsel from the area around Oranienburger Strasse to the north and east.
In accordance with the concept of General Director Wilhelm von Bode, this museum's magnificent exhibition rooms, which follow examples from the Renaissance and Baroque periods, were devoted to the Sculpture Collection on the ground level, the Picture Gallery on the upper level and the Numismatic Collection and Museum of Islamic Art in the base level. Then it was customary for the various types of art to be displayed separately. Bode introduced the concept of "style rooms", by which rooms for paintings also contained sculptures of the same artistic period, and vice versa.
In 1951 the destruction from the war had been remedied to such an extent that it was possible to resume exhibitions. In 1956 this museum was renamed the Bode-Museum and has since been used for several collections which no longer had a home. Thus the Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection, the Numismatic Collection, the Picture Gallery, the Sculpture Collection, the Early Christian Byzantine Collection, the Museum fur Pre- and Early History and the Kindermuseum (Children's Museum) have all been or are now housed in the Bode-Museum at one time or another.
