Category: COLLECTIONS

The collection is housed by the building in which the painter Gheorghe Tattarescu (1820-1894) lived and worked for over four decades. He and Theodor Aman were the founders of the Bucharest School of Fine Arts (1864). The house, one of the oldest civilian buildings still standing today in Bucharest, was built at the beginning of […]

The collection constitutes a veritable cultural incursion in different times and places, featuring works of visual art – 100 paintings signed by Theodor Pallady, Lucian Grigorescu, Alexandru Ciucurencu, Dimitrie Ghiaţă, Gheorghe Petraşcu, Ion Andreescu, Jean Al. Steriadi, Iosif Iser, Nicolae Tonitza, Ion Ţuculescu, Marcel Iancu and M.H. Maxy, as well as 211 pieces of decorative […]

The collection is housed by the house of the two artists, built between 1911 and 1913 by architect Alexander Clavel, on Vasile Alecsandri Str, Bucharest. It features over 2400 pieces donated to the Municipality between 1951 and 1983. Its base exhibition has over 200 works of art on display: paintings, sculptures, sketches, religious items. Marble, […]

The Medrea Collection came to life through a successive series of donations. The first took place in 1948, following an ample retrospective exhibition. Initially the donation, which featured 118 paintings and 38 sketches, was exhibited for a few years at Mogoşoaia Palace, and in 1957 was moved to a building at No. 16, General Constantin […]

Founded through a decree issued by King Carol II of Romania, on June 1st 1933, the Pinacotheque was inaugurated thanks to the support of the Mayor of the time, Dem. I. Dobrescu, of Dr. George Severeanu (who became the first Director of the institution) and of several cultural figures, on November 20th 1933, in the […]

The Bucharest Municipality Museum library owns a valuable literary national heritage, made of 1957 tomes, including manuscripts (18th to 19th centuries), foreign tomes (1560-1800), old Romanian tomes (1648-1830), books of bibliophile value (1800-1900) and old Romanian periodic (19th century). The collection’s nucleus is constituted of publications with documentary value for the history of Romanians and […]

Colecţia „Maria şi dr. George Severeanu” a fost donată municipalităţii de medicul radiolog George Severeanu, pasionat colecţionar de antichităţi şi primul director al Muzeului Municipiului Bucureşti şi mai apoi de către soţia acestuia Maria, fiind deschisă pentru public în casa unde au locuit cei doi, în luna noiembrie 1956. În perioada imediat următoare a fost […]

The “C.I. and C.C. Nottara” opened to the public in the year 1956 in the building at no. 105 Dacia Boulevard, through a donation made by Ana Nottara, wife of composer Constantin C. Nottara (1890-1915). Today the museum can no longer be found at that address, as the building is no longer appropriate for the […]

The Para-numismatic collection of the Bucharest Municipality Museum features around 20 000 objects, divided into several subcategories depending on the artefact type: medals and plaquettes, insignias, decorations, sigils, relevant documents, of incontestable historical value for the modern period. All these types of objects found within the collection constitute a precious historical source illustrating several ceremonial […]

The numismatic collection of the Bucharest Municipality Museum encompasses around 38 000 coins and bills, generally originating from archaeological sites set in place over the years by collectives of the Museum’s specialists, as well as various accidental finds. A significant part of the collection was formed following generous donations from the first half of the […]