Well, I couldn't give the Bode Museum a 2. It doesn't merit a "poor" rating. Here's what I strongly feel: This is a museum for specialists. It is most definitely not a museum for the general visitor. Plus, as with most of the other Museuminsel institutions, the presentation is dated and extremely conservative. OK, at least it's not trendy. Here is what it contains: medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque sculpture; Byzantine; and coins. If you're a specialist in any of that stuff, then go. If not, then I would give the Bode Museum a miss.

This museum has more medieval sculpture (with some Renaissance and Baroque sculpture added for good measure) than I have ever seen in one place. If, like my wife and I, this is what you love, you will find this museum fantastic. If not, skip it. It is certainly the least visited museum on Museum Island. You can avoid the crowds here!

We were looking forward to visiting this elegant, imposing museum on the Museum insel. It is stylish, spacious and well maintained, and carefully curated with themes. Excellent wide sculpture collections. Nice cafe upstairs, relaxed. The down were the staff downstairs who followed us around, I consider this racism being a person of colour. Education on bias needed.

I went principally to see this majestic building for its architecture and grand halls. However, I was taken aback by the fabulous medieval art, especially from Germany, mainly on wood, and some impressive majolica work of de la Robbia family. Amazing numismatic collection, perhaps the biggest in the world, is alone worth the visit.

The Bode Museum specializes in statuary from the middle ages to the 18th century, although it also has a number of paintings on the walls. I particularly like the room with the carvings by Tilman Riemenschneider. There is an interesting small exhibition juxtaposing works by Pablo Picasso with other, older Spanish paintings, and the exhibition Klar Text candidly discusses the history of the museum. Also worth noting is the exhibition "Der zweite Blick," which is dispersed throughout the collection and seeks to place women more centrally in the collection. Recommended!

Bode Museum, originally named for Kaiser Friedrich and since renamed for a former director, as part of a post-War renovation and reconfiguration. Although the other museums are adjacent, they don’t connect easily; the Bode is built right onto the water, without accommodation for a path. So we crossed the river north to a local neighborhood and approached the museum from the other side of the Spree. (Note: now I see that the Bode suggests coming from the south-west instead.) It is a grand building, somehow much larger from the inside than the outside, under-attended, and with many small galleries off long hallways, and a variety of collections, all including far too many images of Madonna and Child. Traffic flow was a bit weird; entrances to galleries hard to find. Minimal cafe, but great location for it.

The Bode Museum is an exhibition of Byzantine art. Byzantine art focuses on the expression of religion, specifically orthodox Christianity and the images exhibited were very much controlled by the church when produced. If region is not an interest for you then this museum may not be your thing. I kind of fit into that category as I visited without researching beforehand. I did however think this was an amazing building, with great organisation and it wasn’t packed with tourists (probably because it was January). I spent my visit looking at the expressions posed by the subjects of the sculptures and paintings. Some of which were quite serious, beautiful, ugly old and young . A few that were probably unintentionally comical but that might be my twisted humour! My advice research before visiting.