The Bode Museum on the island's northern tip, opened in 1904 and then called Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum.

Public opinion at the time of reunification strongly favored a return of the Old Masters to their historical home at the Bode Museum.

The bust remains on display in what is now the Bode Museum labelled "England", "19th century" with a question mark.

Bode Museum (official website)

The Bode Museum in Berlin, above, which houses the city's sculpture collection and a trove of Byzantine art, has completed a five-year, $152 million renovation.

When he fled Berlin during the war, he left the notebooks at the Bode Museum.

A large part of it was brought to the then Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum (now the Bode Museum) in Berlin in 1903.

But a look of poverty and sadness is discouraging to many visitors, and attendance at the Bode Museum has sometimes dropped to 200 a day.

In 1857 the statues were replaced with bronze copies made by August Kiss, the originals can be seen at the Bode Museum.

After six years and $6.9 million in renovations, the coin collection of the Bode Museum will be redisplayed today on Berlin's historic Museum Island.