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Berlin's sculptures get palatial new home as restored Bode Museum opens.

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| October 17, 2006 | COPYRIGHT 2003 Financial Times Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

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Byline: GEIR MOULSON

Berlin's Bode Museum reopened Tuesday after years of restoration, providing a palatial new home for a wide-ranging collection of European sculpture and Byzantine art spanning some 1,500 years.

Its rebirth marks a big step forward for a mammoth plan to restore the neoclassical Museum Island complex, a tourist magnet and UNESCO World Heritage site that was blighted by heavy World War II damage and postwar neglect.

"We have regained a palace in the middle of Berlin," city museum director Peter-Klaus Schuster said of the building, which juts out into the Spree River at the tip of an island in what…

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