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   Bucharest art galleries and museums

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Bucharest has some superb museums and art galleries. The National Museum of Art of Romania is perhaps the best-known of Bucharest museums. It is located in the former royal palace and features extensive collections of medieval and modern Romanian art. Despite the extensive classical art galleries and museums in Bucharest, there is also a contemporary arts scene that has become increasingly prominent in recent times. The National Museum of Contemporary Art is situated in a wing of the Palace of the Parliament and contains a widespread collection of Romanian and international contemporary art, in a number of expressive forms. There is also a range of smaller, private art galleries throughout the city centre. 

Galleries

Visiting Bucharest and interested in art? These art galleries will fire your imagination and exhilarate your senses. Apollo is an art gallery with plenty of well-executed paintings and sculptures on the right-hand side of the National Theatre. You'll find curtains and picture frames and accessories in Art Plus Gallery. Dominus is an art gallery on the left side of the National Theatre with plenty of mainstream paintings and sculptures. Galeriile Orizont is a shop annex gallery selling landscapes, small sculptures and glassware. In Nemtoi Gallery you will find glasses, vases, and all kinds of wonderful art and gift ideas, and Simeza is specialized in exhibitions by young Romanian artists. 

Bucharest art museums

The Bucharest museums are a destination in themselves. The open-air Village Museum Bucharest in Herastrau Park is beautiful, a treasure offered by the anonymous Romanian peasant and revealed to the world by the work of extraordinary people like Dimitrie Gusti, Henry Stahl and many others. The National Art Museum Bucharest is in the former building of the Royal Palace. The aim of the museum is to provide a comprehensive collection on Romanian and International art from the middle age to the present. A great collection of peasant relics can be found in the Romanian Peasant Museum Bucharest. 

Village museum Bucharest

The Village Museum Bucharest was founded in 1936 and houses a few dozen steep-roofed peasant homes, thatched barns, log cabins, churches and watermills, representing the history and design of Romania's rural architecture. All regions of the country were carefully taken apart, shipped to the museum and rebuilt in order to recreate the village setting. This fascinating outdoor museum, the largest in Europe, covers some 30 acres on the shores of Lake Herastrau in Herestrau Park. Throughout the year, the Village Museum Bucharest hosts special events where you will have a chance to witness folk artisans demonstrating traditional skills in weaving, pottery and other crafts. 

National art museum

The National Art Museum Bucharest is Romania's leading art museum. It was founded in 1948 to house the former Royal Collection, which included Romanian and European art dating from the 15th to the 20th century. It’s located in the neoclassical former Royal Palace. Although tragically vandalized and looted during the 1989 uprising, the museum has now been lovingly restored. The museum currently exhibits over 100,000 works divided into two major sections. Its National Gallery features the works of major Romanian artists, including Grigorescu, Aman and Andreescu. The European Gallery, comprising some 15 rooms, displays little-known art gems from the likes of El Greco, Monet, Rembrandt, Renoir, Breughel, Cezanne and Rubens. 

Peasant museum Bucharest

The Peasant Museum Bucharest was founded in 1906. The museum features the richest folk art collection in Romania, with over 90,000 artifacts that trace the colorful and diverse cultural life of the Romanian people. The Pottery Collection includes some 18,000 items, representative of the most important pottery centers in the country. The oldest ceramic item found in the museum bears the inscription 1746. Equally impressive, the Costume Collection comprises almost 20,000 traditional folk costumes, some dating from the beginning of the 19th century. The displays dip into all aspects of life in the Romanian countryside. Exhibits of agricultural tools, carpets, icons, furniture, photographs and films build up a complete picture of Romanian folk culture.

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