The object of the month at the Victor Babeș Museum
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
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 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
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 […]
Cycling through other times
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 […]
Handcrafted astronomical instruments
Handcrafted astronomical instruments Amateur astronomy is one […]
Monthly micro-exhibitions at the Dr. Nicolae Minovici Museum of Folk Art
Monthly micro-exhibitions at the Dr. Nicolae Minovici Museum of Folk Art The thematic exhibitions conceived by the museum team for 2021 aim at framing the patrimony of the Minovici Museum, from the building to the collection, in detail. These micro-exhibitions will take place throughout a calendar month, continuing in a separate key the […]
ART AS AN EXERCISE ‒ DRAWINGS OF THEODOR AMAN (Invitation to the artwork lab)
ART AS AN EXERCISE ‒ DRAWINGS OF THEODOR AMAN (Invitation to the artwork lab) The year 2021 marks on March 20 the 190th anniversary of the birth of Theodor Aman and on August 19 the commemoration of the 130th anniversary of his death; we want to mark these events by organizing a commemorative […]
ORIENT VERSUS OCCIDENT
ORIENT VERSUS OCCIDENT In furthering the series of annual exhibitions organized by the Bucharest Pinacotheque, the Art Section of the Bucharest Municipality Museum organizes starting with December 2021, at Suțu Palace a patrimony compendium from the Bucharest Pinacotheque collection, meant to illustrate and clarify as much as possible the connotations of Orient […]
Corneliu Baba Workshop ‒ Confessions
Corneliu Baba Workshop ‒ Confessions The exhibition “Corneliu Baba Workshop ‒ Confessions” will present painting, graphic art and objects from the artist’s workshop, integrated in an exhibition scenography that will try to reconstruct the creative atmosphere in the workshop of the great Romanian painter. An impressive number of works of the artist […]
Ligia Macovei and the poetry of Tudor Arghezi
Ligia Macovei and the poetry of Tudor Arghezi The “Ligia and Pompiliu Macovei Art Collection” contains hundreds of works signed by the artist, made in various techniques (oil, mixed media, watercolor and gouache). While she is famous for the illustrations of Eminescu’s lyricism, her contribution to the poetic creation of Tudor Arghezi must […]
LIFE IN SOUTHEAST ROMANIA 6500 YEARS AGO
EXHIBITION EVENT AT SUȚU PALACE LIFE IN SOUTHEAST ROMANIA 6500 YEARS AGO The Gumelnița culture, named after the research undertaken in Romania in the eponymous tell from Gumelnița (located near the left bank of the Danube, near to the city of Oltenița, Călărași county), defines the beginning of the Eneolithic era in Romania, […]
Tudor Vladimirescu and the Cultural Memory of the Revolution of 1821
Thematic exhibition at the 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. […]
Power and status. Portraits from the Sculpture Collection of the Bucharest Municipality Museum
Exhibition at the Suțu Palace Power and status. Portraits from the Sculpture Collection of the Bucharest Municipality Museum The sculpture collection of the Bucharest Municipality Museum has a series of metal, marble and plaster portraits of some Romanian personalities, created mainly in the second half of the 19th century and the first half […]
The Stone in the Age of Man
Exhibition at Filipescu-Cesianu House The Stone in the Age of Man The stone has always accompanied Man. The history of their relationship is lost in the mists of time, and a large part of humanity’s existence is inextricably linked to the technologies used by Man to process the Stone. The carved ax from […]
Parchments from the patrimony of the Bucharest Municipality Museum
Exhibition at the Suțu Palace Parchments from the patrimony of the Bucharest Municipality Museum The Museum of Bucharest is the beneficiary of a diverse and varied Collection of documents that includes documents from the chancelleries of the rulers of Wallachia starting with the second reign of Dan II (June-August 1428) and continuing with […]
International Conference of Urban Anthropology 6th edition Public Spaces: Places of the City, Places of Memory
Given the evolution of the pandemic and travel restrictions, we are forced to postpone the International Conference of Urban Anthropology scheduled for November 13-14, 2020, now at the sixth edition. The period considered at this time for rescheduling is April 2-3, 2021, that coincides with the spring break of our guests at the University of […]
Old and rare books from the time of Phanariot rulers
Exhibition at the Suțu Palace Old and rare books from the time of Phanariot rulers […]
Anton Kaindl. Engravings of places from Bucharest
Exhibition at the Suțu Palace Anton Kaindl. Engravings of places from Bucharest In 1921, at the invitation of the Royal Family, Anton Kaindl arrived in Romania, and will prove to be one of the most impressive engravers of the twentieth century. Very little is known about the journey of the painter […]
LIFE IN SOUTHEAST ROMANIA 6500 YEARS AGO
DECEMBER 15th 2020 EXHIBITION AT SUȚU PALACE LIFE IN SOUTHEAST ROMANIA 6500 YEARS AGO The Gumelnița culture, named after the research undertaken in Romania in the eponymous tell from Gumelnița (located near the left bank of the Danube, near to the city of Oltenița, Călărași county), defines the beginning of the Eneolithic era in […]
FASHION IN INTER-WAR BUCHAREST
FROM NOVEMBER 18th 2020 THEMATIC EXHIBITION AT THE SUȚU PALACE FASHION IN INTER-WAR BUCHAREST The exhibition dedicated to fashion and its evolution meets the questions of the specialist public or the public in love with fashion and interested in urban life in all its aspects. The return in time through analysis of the […]
FROM ARTISTIC ANATOMY TO THE FINISHED ARTWORK
FROM NOVEMBER 8th 2020 THEMATIC EXHIBITION AT THE SUȚU PALACE FROM ARTISTIC ANATOMY TO THE FINISHED ARTWORK The annual exhibition of the Bucharest Municipality Museum Pinacotheque will open at the Suțu Palace on November 8th 2020. The concept starts from the definition of the artistic anatomy as being the science that aesthetically studies the relations […]
REMEMBER CORNEL MEDREA. MENTOR AND MASTER
FROM SEPTEMBER 30th 2020 THEMATIC EXHIBITION AT THE SUȚU PALACE REMEMBER CORNEL MEDREA. MENTOR AND MASTER Continuing the series of exhibitions organized by the Art Department, the Cornel Medrea Art Collection is inviting its general public for a reminder of what meant the cultural heritage left by this master of fine arts. The exhibition entitled […]
CECILIA CUȚESCU STORCK AND LIGIA MACOVEI, A NOVEL RELATIONSHIP: MASTER AND DISCIPLE
FROM SEPTEMBER 17th 2020 THEMATIC EXHIBITION WITHIN THE MUSEUM HOUSING THE LIGA AND POMPILIU MACOVEI ART COLLECTION CECILIA CUȚESCU STORCK AND LIGIA MACOVEI, A NOVEL RELATIONSHIP: MASTER AND DISCIPLE The medallion-exhibition will be open between September 17th 2020 and January 31st 2020 at the museum that houses the Ligia and Pompiliu Macovei Art Collection. In […]
“THE ANASTASE SIMU MUSEUM AND THE BUCHAREST MUNICIPALITY MUSEUM PINACOTHEQUE”
FROM JULY 29th 2020 THEMATIC EXHIBITION AT SUȚU PALACE “THE ANASTASE SIMU MUSEUM AND THE BUCHAREST MUNICIPALITY MUSEUM PINACOTHEQUE” The exhibition will open at Suțu Palace on July 29th 2020. The Bucharest Municipality Museum keeps in the archive of its pinacotheque a rich correspondence from the Anastase Simu Collection. In an effort to retrieve information […]
SCIENCE AND ETHNICITY III: THE BIRTH OF SCIENCE ABOUT MAN IN COMMUNIST ROMANIA
SEPTEMBER 14th 2020 THEMATIC EXHIBITION AT THE FILIPESCU-CESIANU HOUSE SCIENCE AND ETHNICITY III: THE BIRTH OF SCIENCE ABOUT MAN IN COMMUNIST ROMANIA After the end of the Second World War, there have been numerous attempts to clarify the relationship between physical anthropology, eugenics and human genetics. After the events happened, during the war, in […]
THE PLANET MARS
OCTOBER 2020 THE PLANET MARS TEMPORARY EXHIBITION AT THE ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY Mars, the fourth planet from the Sun, has awakened people’s imagination since Antiquity. The red color of this planet led to it being named after the god of war, but we now have a planet with a name that does not suit it. Out […]
THE OBJECT OF THE MONTH AT THE DR. NICOLAE MINOVICI MUSEUM
MONTHLY EXHIBITION THE OBJECT OF THE MONTH AT THE DR. NICOLAE MINOVICI MUSEUM Dr. Nicolae Minovici was a collector who loved folk art and was the first to open a folk art museum in Bucharest to showcase the countless objects in his collection. Along with the permanent exhibition of the museum as the forensic doctor […]
Tattarescu – Perspective Studies
STARTING DECEMBER 2019 THEMATIC EXHIBITION AT THE SUȚU PALACE TATTARESCU – PERSPECTIVE STUDIES On December 6th 2019, the Suțu Palace will open a new thematic exhibition. Anticipating the reopening of the Ghoerghe Tattarescu Memorial Museum – inside the artist’s house on 7 Domnița Anastasia Street, featuring the painter’s major works of art (1820 – 1894) […]
Gheorghe Petrașcu – Reminiscentia 70
STARTING 27 NOVEMBER 2019 THEMATIC EXHIBITION AT THE SUȚU PALACE GHEORGHE PETRAȘCU – REMINISCENTIA 70 In 2019, when we commemorate 70 years since Gheorghe Petrașcu’s death, a remarkable artist of the past century, the Art Department of the Bucharest Municipality Museum wishes to pay him homage through a temporary exhibition (the first one […]