Key facts
- Former name
- Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum
- Location
- Museum Island , Berlin
- Type
- Art museum
- Website
- smb.museum
- Part of
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island), Berlin
- Criteria
- Cultural: ii, iv
- Inscription
- 1999 (23rd Session )
- Area
- 8.6 ha (21 acres)
- Buffer zone
- 22.5 ha (56 acres)
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Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum
- Official website
- www.smb.museum/en/museums-institutions/bode-museum/home.html
- Image
- Berlin Museumsinsel Fernsehturm.jpg
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- inception
- 1904-01-01
- Commons category
- Bode-Museum
- Commons Institution page
- Bode-Museum
- date of official opening
- 1904-00-00
- native label
- Bode-Museum
- Commons gallery
- Bode-Museum
- visitors per year
- 233000
- described at URL
- bildhauerei-in-berlin.de/bildwerk/allegorien-der-kuenste-10871
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Article
The Bode Museum (German: Bode-Museum), formerly called the Emperor Frederick Museum (German: Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum), is a listed building on the Museum Island in the historic centre of Berlin. It was built from 1898 to 1904 by order of German Emperor William II according to plans by Ernst von Ihne in Baroque Revival style. The building's front square featured a memorial to German Emperor Frederick III, which was destroyed by the East German authorities. Currently, the Bode-Museum is home to the Skulpturensammlung, the Museum für Byzantinische Kunst and the Münzkabinett (sculpture, Byzantine art, and coins and medals). As part of the Museum Island complex, the Bode-Museum was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1999 because of its outstanding architecture and testimony to the development of museums as a cultural phenomenon in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
History and collections