The fine arts collection was founded in 1956 and in 1971 featured around 1500 paintings, drawings, tombstones, coats of arms etc. Presently, the fine arts collection features 2395 oil paintings, watercolors, sketches and engravings. Among the more valuable and important pieces, from an artistic and historical point of view, we mention the portraits of Costache […]
Read MoreThe weapons collection is made up of 533 objects, weapons ranging from swords and knives to pistols and rifles. The items are from a very wide-spread geographic area, between the 14th and 20th centuries. Aside from the local produced pieces, the collection also features many weapons of foreign origins, both Oriental and Occidental, from Germany, […]
Read MoreThe miscellanea collection is composed of 783 objects, such as decorative pieces, household items, with wooden, metal, ceramic, marble or, more rarely, glass parts. Most of the collection’s pieces were produced in workshops in England, Austria, Hungary, Russia, France and also Romania, while a small part is of Oriental make, from the 19th-20th centuries. The […]
Read MoreThe science and technology collection of the Bucharest Municipality Museum contains 2 136 items, which are rarely used nowadays, such as musical instruments, disks of ebonite (hard rubber), metal and paper, measuring devices, printing press letters and decorations, lighting devices, irons, pocket watches, clocks, wristwatches, photo cameras, tools and gadgets. Most of the items within […]
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