Museums

www.muzee.org
 
VILLAGE MUSEUM
(Muzeul National al Satului „Dimitrie Gusti”)
www.muzeul-satului.ro
 
The Village Museum, founded by the sociologist Dimitrie Gusti in 1936, is one of the first and most valuble ethnographic museums in the world. It is the second outdoors ethnographic museum in the world, after the one in Stockholm.
 
Spreading on 30 hectares and counting over 70 houses, 99 annexes and churches. Each building is a museum in miniature, being endowed with traditional objects, from towels and cookers to watermills and windmills are oil presses.
 
The houses an churches represents all the regions of the country in various periods of the Romanian people culture, as the museum is trying to recompense, in a generous natural frame, the intimate atmosphere of each dwelling.

     

ROMANIAN PEASANT MUSEUM
(Muzeul Taranului Roman)
www.muzeultaranuluiroman.ro
 
Fopunded quite recently, in 1990, the Romanian Peasant Museum shows its visitors more than 150.000 representative objects and documents for those who want to get acquainted with the rural life.
 
The building sheltering it is a historical monument, in the neo-Romanian style.
 
    

NATIONAL ART MUSEUM - ROYAL PALACE
(Muzeul National de Arta - Palatul Regal)
http://www.mnar.arts.ro
 
The history of the Royal Palace starts in 1837 when the ruler Alexandru Ghica transformed the house built by Dinicu Golescu into a ceremony palace, on the spot where now the southern wing of the Palace is.
 
During the period of 1930-1937, Carol II rebuild and extended the Palace. The old house of Dinicu Golescu was demolished and instead was build the southern wing of the Palace, achieved by the architect N.N Nenciulescu. Later, this southern body included the first spaces destined to a museum exhibition for the presentation of the art collection of the Romanian Crown.
 
In 1942, the construction of a new wing of the Palace was finished, oriented towards Stirbei Voda street, only this part of the building was partly destroyed during tho bombing of 1944.
 
After the Second World War, the siege of the Royal Palace sheltered the National Art Museum. In 1950 was inaugurated the first gallery of the museum - that of national art. The museum operated uninterruptedly until 1989, but during the communist period it was no longer called the Royal Palace.
 
During the period of the communist dictatorship of Nicolae Ceausescu the building did not change its destination, as here was the National Art Museum of the Socialist Republic of Romania. During the events of December 1989, the Royal Palace suffered significant damages. More than 1.000 works were deteriorated or destroyed.
Followed ten years during which the building was closed for ample reconstruction and rearrangement works.
 
     

The Museum was reopened in May 2000, when the European Art Gallery, the Romanian Modern Art Gallery and the Romanian Ancient Art Gallery were successively inaugurated. Currently, it is the National Art Museum and contains several Galleries, among which the European Art Gallery, the National Gallery, the Universal Gallery with the Feudal Art, Graphics and Rehabilitation Workshop sections. More than 1.000.000 exhibits of European art can be admired here. Also, in the Museum there are the works of Gheorghe Tatarescu, Theodor Aman, Nicolae Grigorescu, Stefan Luchian, Theodor Pallady, Nicolae Tonitza, Constantin Brâncusi, Antonello de Messina, Rembrandt, Rubens, Delacroix, Renoir, Monet.
 

GRIGORE ANTIPA NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM
(Muzeul de Istorie Naturala Grigore Antipa)
www.antipa.ro
 
One of the first natural history museums in the world, the „Grigore Antipa” Museum was officially open in its current siege in 1908.
 
Originally, it was called the „History and Antiquities Museum” and it was founded in 1834, upon the proposition of the ban Mihalache Ghica. It had many sieges, among which the current „Saint Sava” College of Bucharest.
 
Currently, the Museum shelters around 1.300.000 exemplars, grouped in 130 collections belonging to most of the groups of animals. One can admire here collections of minerals, rocks and fossils.
The value of the exhibits is all the greater as among them there are more than 5.000 unique exemplars in the world.
 
The museum shelters periodic sale exhibitions, the most appreciated being the aquarium fish exhibition and the semiprecious stones exhibition.
 
      

BUCHAREST HISTORY AND ART MUSEUM - SUTU PALACE
(Muzeul de Istorie si Arta al Bucurestiului - Palatul Sutu)
 
Those who want to know the history of Bucharest can do it by visiting the Museum, where more than 150.000 objects, documents and photographs, drawing, engravings are exhibited that describe the history of Bucharest from the oldest times (Neolithic) until the present day. The archeology part and a numismatics collection are not missing.
 
A representative building for Bucharest, built during the period of 1833-1834, in the neo-Ghotic style, with elements of Romanic style, the Palace belonged to the great minister of foreign affairs Costache Grigore Sutu. The Palace was built according to the plans of two Viennese architects, Johan Veit and Conrad Schwinck.
 
The interior was decorated by the sculptor Karl Storck, who used elements of the neoclassic style. Above the monumental ladder on the inside there is a cupola with ornaments in the Pompeian style.
 
The second half of the 19th century represented a period of maximum brightness, the building became famous in the era of luxurious social evenings organized by Grigore si Irina Sutu. Back then, the Palace was surrounded by vast gardens populated by pelicans, peacocks, pheasants and other rare birds.