Pe șantierul arheologic de la Sultana – Malu Roșu a început o nouă campanie. De 19 ani, an de an, colectivul de cercetare revine în acest loc mirific pentru a continua o tradiție în cercetarea arheologică preistorică de aproape un secol. Sultana a fost prima stațiune aparținând culturii Gumelnița unde s-a desfășurat o săpătură arheologică […]
The Garden of Paradise. Preparatory drawings The construction of the spectacular Storck house was completed in 1911; from 1913 to 1917 Cecilia Cuțescu Storck decorated the interior with numerous symbolist paintings of female figures and a lush, paradisiacal vegetation, especially in the lobby area of the house. The artist chose to paint the walls of […]
What is the connection between haute couture and Romanian folk art? What about that between Western fashion and traditional Romanian craft? You will be able to discover the answer to these questions by visiting the new thematic exhibition at the Dr. Nicolae Minovici Museum – 100%.RO. The French fashion designer Philippe Guilet collaborated with many […]
Cycling through other times The people’s need to cover distances using their own force, but much faster than walking, led towards the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century to the emergence of a new means of transport, which in time would become today’s bicycle. If, at first, this vehicle […]
Thematic exhibition at Suțu Palace Tudor Vladimirescu and the Cultural Memory of the Revolution of 1821 The moment of 1821 has a special significance in the Romanian historiography, given by the voluminous bibliography dedicated both to the development of the events, and to the personality of Tudor Vladimirescu, the leader of the revolution. Aiming to […]
The object of the month at the Victor Babeș Museum The Victor Babeș Museum was built around the memory of the scientist by his son, Mircea Babeș. The latter collected his father’s belongings from the apartment he used at the National Institute of Pathology and Bacteriology, and exhibited them on the […]
Symbols in antithesis An antithesis between two historical periods that marked and changed the identity of the country. A visual discourse argued by objects of the same typology, bearing messages differentiated in the light of ideological principles, normative aesthetic principles and aesthetic values. Symbols in antithesis aims at an antithetic exposition of […]
Romantic and romance. Different only/ but together “Romantic is the one who, among the idealist’s attributes, lacks only one: a worthy and secure purpose.” (N. Iorga) Regardless of the means by which the character of romantism is described, whether he is the young Werther of Goethe and his love for Lotte in “The […]
The measure of time Time. An ancestral subject for reflection and interrogation, time is also a pretext for deciphering and ordering, in a permanent system of human reality and perception. Time accompanies us permanently, being like a dome where scientific knowledge or social practice constantly find new meanings and significations in the […]