Bode Museum

Bode Museum, which is located at the north end of Museum Island, was founded in 1904 as a "Sanctuary of Art and Science" and is still one of Berlin's most frequented tourist attractions.

A bronze cast of Schlüter's statue of the Great Elector on horseback is housed beneath the museum's Great Dome, as are four large sandstone figures in the entry hall, also sculpted by Schlüter in 1712, and two groups by sculptor Adriaen de Vries are housed beneath the museum's Little Dome. The iconic "Flora" bust, a controversial artwork bought by the museum in 1910 with the idea that it was the work of Leonardo da Vinci, despite significant evidence to the contrary (it's more likely to be of 19th-century English origin), is well worth seeing. The Coin Cabinet (Münzkabinett), one of the world's greatest collections, has almost 500,000 rare coins from all periods, illustrating the evolution of coining processes from antiquity to the current day. Its sculpture collection is especially remarkable, including pieces from the Romantic to Early Classical eras in Germany, Venice, and Florence.