EXHIBITIONS ARCHIVE

THE SUBTERRANEAN CITY. BUCHAREST BETWEEN SACRED AND PROFANE The exhibition The Subterranean City. Bucharest between Sacred and Profane focuses on the reconstitution of medieval Bucharest through the presentation of materials and results from archaeological research undergone by the Bucharest Municipality Museum in the Historic Centre area of the city. These brought to light elements of […]

From NOVEMBER 27th 2018 THEMATIC EXHIBITION AT THE SUȚU PALACE THE WHIMS OF FASHION (1850-1950) The Bucharest Municipality Museum now showcases the themed exhibition called “The Whims of Fashion (1850 – 1950)”, which can be visited from November 27th 2018 to March 17th 2019. Official art was largely influenced by the bourgeois taste which, all […]

AVANTGARDE ↔ REARGUARD. FROM THE PREMISES OF ROMANIAN AVANTGARDE TO THE POWER OF SOCIALIST REALISM Starting October 2nd 2018 – The Suțu Palace The thematic exhibition “Avant-garde – Rearguard. From the premises of Romanian avant-garde to the power of socialist realism” awaits its visitors at the Suțu Palace (2 I.C. Brătianu Blvd), starting on Tuesday, […]

Throughout history, money forging has varied according to periods of time, countries, regions or cities. Forged money differ from official emissions through styles, weight or titles. Another distinctive element is represented by how images are reproduced on the faces of coins (also known as the obverse and the reverse sides). These can often display unclear […]

On the occasion of this posters exhibition, the Bucharest Municipality Museum celebrates Margareta Pâslaru, the artist that revolutionized Romanian easy-listening music during her 58 years career. The exhbition named “Margareta Pâslaru – Autumn, let my trees stay green/ Here, have my eyes instead.” brings together in the hallway of the Suțu Palace, a collection of […]

The Bucharest Municipality Museum together with Retromobil Club Romania, cordially invite on Saturday, August 1st, 18:00, at the Suțu Palace, to attend the opening of the exhibition “The Pioneers of Motoring in Bucharest”, an exhibition featuring the beginnings of motoring in Romania as well as sequences of public transportation in Bucharest. Alongside the exhibition displayed […]

From September 12th to October 15th 2014, the Bucharest Municipality Museum cordially invites you to attend the photography exhibition “The Years Have Gone By…”. This eighth edition will represent Bucharest at the start of the 20th century compared to the Bucharest of today and the one from the ‘70s-‘80s as seen by Șerban Lacriteanu. The […]

STARTING NOVEMBER 2019 THEMATIC EXHIBITION AT DR. NICOLAE MINOVICI MUSEUM THE PORTRAIT AS A BIOGRAPHY OF INNOCENCE. AN INTER-WAR PHOTOGRAPHER: DUMITRU FURNICĂ-MINOVICI From November 14th 2019 to February 29th 2020, at Dr. Nicolae Minovici Museum, the Bucharest Municipality Museum will showcase a thematic exhibition featuring photographs taken by engineer Dumitru Furnică-Minovici. Dimitrie Furnică Minovici was […]

The Bucharest Municipality Museum unveils the story of the Filipescu-Cesianu House’s recent rehabilitation through an exhibition organised at Suțu Palace – “The Filipescu-Cesianu House – the story of rehabilitation”. The exhibition will be inaugurated on Wednesday July 20th 2016 at 15:00, Suțu Palace, along with Dr. Adrian Majuru, Manager of the Bucharest Municipality Museum, and […]

A descendant of painter Gheorghe Tattarescu, on her mother’s side, Micaela Eleutheriade was born on a Sunday in June 1900. She spent her first years of art studies at the School of Belle Arte in Bucharest (founded by Theodor Aman and her grandfather, Gheorghe Tattarescu). Her tutors were Ipolit Strâmbu, Dimitrie Serafim and Cecilia Cuțescu-Stork. […]

How do children see the Suțu Palace? The exhibition the Painted Castle – June 1st, the Bucharest Municipality Museum. One the International Day of Children, the Bucharest Municipality Museum – the Suțu Palace, opens an exhibition of drawings created by children… for children and adults. “The Painted Castel” can be visited starting with June 1st […]

Ion Țuculescu was born on May 19th 1910 at Craiova, in a family of school teachers. He went to primary school at Ion Heliade Rădulescu under the guidance of his parents and became acquainted with painting during high-school when, together with his brother Șerban and local painter A. D. Hagiu, he opened an exhibition at […]

The First World War did not represent only a displacements of troops, unpredicted situations and series of events, but also a radical and painful shifts of events, with strong implications in the social and political spheres. The First World War caused the collapse of a world and the emergence of another, one where the older […]

“My Name was Constantin Basarab Brâncoveanu” is an invitation to find out how life might have been at the end of the 17th century and especially what it would have been like to be in the intimate circle of power. The first person narrative helps the visitors to get close to a character from so […]

The exhibition’s closing date will be extended to May 17th 2015. “For a History of Tattoos in Romania” is an exhibition created together with the “Mina Minovici” Medical Forensics Institute and premiers a didactic collection belonging to Dr. Nicolae Minovici started as far back as the end of the 19th century. The opening of the […]

An event-exhibition exploring the Capital’s new architecture, from 1990 to present days. Between the radicalism of the beginning and the major cultural stake of present architecture, the 25 years that have passed are marked by multiple thematic beams, always branching out and reuniting, intersected or juxtaposed. The exhibition proposes an open reading of the most […]

The Bucharest Municipality Museum has organized the fifth edition edition of the Comic Strip Salon – Tales of Bucharest in Comic Strips in the attic of the Filipescu-Cesianu House (No. 151 Calea Victoriei). This year The Comic Strips Salon turns five years old. On this anniversary occasion, comic strip artists were invited to take part […]

On Wednesday, November 19th 2014, the Bucharest Municipality Museum will open its exhibition series called “Miraculous Healings” with an exhibition dedicated to painter Gheorghe Tattarescu, who in 1864 founded the Romanian higher arts education in Wallachia. The sub-title associated to the subject, Remembering – restorations, indicates the “double” content of these events: the organizers wish […]

Sixty years after the passing of painter Theodor Pallady, 8 works classed as part of the national heritage, works which have been researched and restored in the Painting Restoration Laboratory and which will become the object of the exhibition “Theodor Pallady”. The exhibition will be inaugurated at Sutu Palace in the month of December 2016. […]

Music at home – how we banish boredom In urban history, music at home has a story at the very least secular. It is the tale of desire to master a musical instrument. This fashion explodes after 1830 in the restricted space of urban aristocracy, the preferred instrument being the harpsichord, later on replaced by […]

The first Bucharest’s Month event took place 80 years ago and was a grand event going beyond the limits of a simple festivity or exhibition. Bucharest’s Month had a great impact on the city’s progress, each new edition marking the opening of important edifices. The initiative, inspired by the great European exhibitions of the time, […]

“THEODOR AMAN” MUSEUM – EXHIBITION PROJECT THE INACCESIBLE WORK – THE WATERCOLORS OF THEODOR AMAN September 28th 2018 – March 30th 2019 The “Theodor Aman” Museum is pleased to invite you to the thematic exhibition “THE INACCESIBLE WORK – The Watercolors of Theodor Aman”, which will take place at the “Theodor Aman” Museum from September […]

The exhibition “Ştefan Luchian”, part of the “Miraculous Healings” exhibition project, aims to illustrate and bring to the artistically inclined public’s attention the vast universe of a great artist, in a time of great turmoil for the social and artistic world, and, through the creation of a dialogue between painting as an act of creation […]

Photographs from the Bucharest Municipality Museum’s collection and the collection of the Romanian Academy Library Prints Cabinet. The exhibition will remain open from January 15th to March 31st. 1918 – 1944 was the period of time that displayed the largest variety of orientations and stylistic explorations, a time when Bucharest went through an intense constructions […]

STARTING DECEMBER 2019 THEMATIC EXHIBITION AT THE SUȚU PALACE ELITES AND COATS OF ARMS IN THE OLD BUCHAREST The exhibition ”Elites and Coats of Arms” will be open for the public from December 18th 2019 to April 2020 at the Suțu Palace and will showcase a rediscovered history of Bucharest’s elites from the 19th and […]

Our city’s geography was quite generous in the past. The small islands on Dâmbovița, which absorbed the water excess and protected the nearby districts from floods, were often surounded by forests. Fragments of these riches survived until the mid 19th century, but started to dissapear as the city’s demographic structure developed: new districts, industrial spaces […]

The Polish Institute in Bucharest in partnership with the Bucharest Municipality Museum, cordially invite you to attend the exhibition “The Samarians of Markowa” open between March 22nd and April 17th 2016 at the Suțu Palace. The exhibition opening will take place on Tuesday, March 22nd, 19:00, at the Suțu Palace. The exhibition depicts the tragic […]

Like people, books have their own destinies. Many of the publications in the Bucharest Municipality Museum Library have travelled a long way from their first day in the print press to their present destination. They were sold, bought or gifted, passed down from one owner to another for many years. Some books were part of […]

The Art department of the Bucharest Municipality Museum is preparing an exhibition dedicated to Bucharest’s representations in paintings and drawings that will allow visitors to uncover more unusual aspects of the city as it was in the past (end 19th century – 20th century), featuring the relics of its characteristic picturesque atmosphere. The exhibition will […]

The Royal Embassy of Romania, the Bucharest Municipality Museum and the Theodor Aman Museum are pleased to invite you at the opening of the posters exhibition “1814 The Year of Miracles” on Saturday, October 18th 2014, 11:00, at the Theodor Aman Museum (8 C.A. Rosetti Street). This event will also celebrate the Norwegian Constitution’s 200 […]

This is a 400 years old European story. A story that connected two cities through the tenacity of people who had different life projects. It must be noted that the story of the two cities is very similar in terms of economic details. If the city of Leipzig traces its beginnings down to the association […]

Starting with August 3rd 2016, the exhibition “The lost hospitals of Bucharest” organised by the Physicians’ College Society of Bucharest along with the Bucharest Municipality Museum can be visited in the Filantropia Hospital courtyard, and will remain open for the public until October 30th 2016. The hospital is located at No. 11 Ion Mihalache Boulevard […]

STARTING JULY 2019 THEMATIC EXHIBITION AT SUȚU PALACE „CONSTANTIN I. NOTTARA: THEATER IS MY LIFE!” From July 30th to October 6th 2019, the Suțu Palace will host a temporary exhibition to honor the memory of the great actor C.I. Nottara, an important figure of the Romanian theater art . Together with other remarkable names of […]

The exhibition “Marius Bunescu”, the fourteenth in the Miraculous Healings series, is open since December 2017 and aims to show the public nine paintings belonging to the Bucharest Municipality Pinacotheque, brought to their initial looks after a process of restauration As the project Miraculous Healings has already accustomed the public, this exhibition is an opportunity […]

The coin represents a valuable historical document that offers information regarding the political, economic, religious, cultural and artistic realities of the period it was minted in, managing to contain both a written message through the text offered by its legend and an iconographic one through the representations on its surface. The project The History of […]

The Bucharest Municipality Museum opens two new rooms of the Suțu Palace to the public – organizing a memento dedicated to the Pinacotheque of Bucharest. Founded in 1933 through the efforts of certain cultural personalities of the time, as an essential cultural institution, the Pinacotheque was first housed by Admiral Vasile Urseanu’s Palace. Today it […]

“The Great War in pictures” – photographs, postcards and propaganda posters from the first world conflagration, in an exhibition that transports us in the front lines of the battlefield, after one century. Overwhelming feelings, compassion or pity in front of memorable war scenes, from the battles in the trenches to the celebration of Christmas in […]

April 27th 2017 marks the anniversary of 45 years since the opening of the Old Princely Court Museum. Set up in the vestiges of the Bucharest Princely Court, the official residence of Wallachian rulers, the Old Princely Court Museum presents historic testimonies of great importance for learning the history of Bucharest. The founding of the […]

Tuesday, May 24th 2016, starting with 18:30, we have the pleasure to invite you to the opening of the 20th edition of the National Photography Salon “Fotogeografica”, taking place at the Suțu Palace – Bucharest Municipality Museum. On this occasion we will also lauch the “Fotogeografica 2016” album featuring the winning works in the two […]

The Bucharest Municipality Museum and Grand Hotel Continental invite you on a journey to discover Bucharest at the end of the 19th century, as seen by the cameras of Franz Duschek and Franz Mandy, two of the city’s first photographers. The Photo-Cabinet exhibition is hosted by the renowned hotel and is part of a larger […]

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 […]

Starting with March 2019, at the Nicolae Minovici Museum Science and Ethnicity II: Biopolitics and Eugenics in Romania, 1920-1944 This exhibition documents the complex biopolitical and eugenic programmes devised to create a new Romanian family and nation through individual and collective scientific management. Between 1920 and 1944 biopolitics and eugenics received official endorsement in Romania, […]

The Bucharest Municipality Museum continues its “Miraculous Healings” series with an exhibition dedicated to painter Mișu Popp. The opening will take place on Thursday, March 3rd, 12:00, at the Suțu Palace. The organizers would like to bring to the public’s attention the restauration process performed by BMM’s specialists on an exceptional painting belongig to this […]

The exhibition wishes to familiarize members of the public with ancient items and recent stories, all revealed in an exquisite ambient: The Stained Glass Hall of the George Severeanu Museum. The exhibited objects are not well-known, being part of a private collection (the Maria and Dr. George Severeanu Collection) put together by Dr. Severeanu and […]

The Bucharest Municipality Museum cordially invites you to attend the exhibition dedicated to Marcel Iancu, from August 5th to October 4th at the Suțu Palace. The exhibition features a series of artworks belonging to the artist which were restored in the museum’s restauration studio. Quantity does not replace quality in art. Democracy was banful for […]

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 […]

In 1917, Eugène Pittard published “La Roumanie: Valachie, Moldavie, Dobroudja: 50 illustrations, don’t 35 hors-texte d’ après des photographies prises par l’auteur, Paris, 1917, 328 p.” with the dedication: To the Romanian people, whom, during my long anthropological study campaigns, I came to know and love. I tried to present a short synthesis of all […]

Descoperă invențiile și arta lui Leonardo da Vinci și surprinde o secvență din felul în care funcționează o minte strălucită. Muzeul Municipiului București vă invită la expoziția interactivă „Mașinile lui Leonardo da Vinci”, deschisă în perioada 18 mai – 24 septembrie 2017 la Palatul Suțu (parter), realizată cu sprijinul Societății ARANEUS din Polonia. Discover the […]

Rudolf Schwietzer Cumpăna (born May 7th 1886, Pitești – died February 17th 1975, Bucharest)   The Bucharest Municipality Museum continues its Miraculous Healings series with the showcase of two recently restaured paintings and an exhibition dedicated to painter Rudolf Schwietzer Cumpăna, on the 40 years commemoration since his eath. “… Despite his German name, which […]

STARTING AUGUST 2019 THEMATIC EXHIBITION AT DR. NICOLAE MINOVICI MUSEUM GHEORGHE LEAHU – BUCHARESTIAN ARCHITECTONIC CURIOSITIES   From August 23rd to November 3rd 2019, the Conferences Hall of Dr. Nicolae Minovici Museum will host the exhibition “Bucharestian Architectonic Curiosities: Gheorghe Leahu”. The watercolor townscapes were a generous donation of the author to the Bucharest Municipality […]

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 […]

An exhibition dedicated to the phographers victims of the fire in Colectiv club. During December 2015 – January 2016 the Bucharest Municipality Museum and ARCUB Gabroveni are hosting the #find_us photography exhibition at their locations in the Filipescu-Cesianu House, 151 Victoriei Street, respectively on 84-90 Lipscani Street. The opening of this new exhibition in the […]

MIRACULOUS HEALINGS: „NICOLAE GRIGORESCU (1838-1907)” Opened in June at the Suțu Palace, the exhibition “Nicolae Grigorescu (1838-1907)” is part of the “Miraculous Healings” project and aims to introduce the public to nine heritage paintings of the Bucharest Pinacothque, brought back to their original looks after restauration. “That symphony of lines, tones, shadows and light, that […]

“The National Museum of Antiquities: An Archaeological Journey” is an event marking the 180 years anniversary of the founding of the Natural History and Antiquities Museum and the 150 years anniversary of the National Museum of Antiquities, whose continuer is the “Vasile Pârvan” Institute of Archaeology. The exhibition offers the public an encounter with the […]

The Bucharest Municipality Museum will organise the fourth edition of the Comic Strip Salon – Tales of Bucharest in Comic Strips, between June 7th and August 30th 2017 in the attic of the Filipescu-Cesianu House (No. 151 Calea Victoriei). This year we invite you to discover the Bucharest of yesterday and today, seen through the […]

The third exhibition in the Miraculous Healings series is dedicated to painter Lucia Dem. Bălăcescu on the 120th anniversy since her birth, and the representative work restored to the exhibitional circuit after the “healing” process of restauration, is „Landscape from Bucharest”.  The painting is joined by five other works belonging to the Bucharest Pinacotheque’s collection. […]

The exhibition “The Ancient Man: the Real and the Imaginary. The Greek Vessels in the Maria and Dr. George Severeanu Collection” introduces the public into the atmosphere of ancient Greece by following the evolution of Greek ceramics from the 10th century B.C. to the 4th century B.C. The objects on display are part of a […]

The Bucharest Municipality Museum cordially invites you to attend the opening of the exhibition “Art and Ambience in Bucharest – First Half of the 20th Century” which will take place at the Suțu Palace on Thursday, July 5th 2018, 6:00 PM. The exhibition will remain open until November 4th 2018. The second half of the […]

Notoriety is what generally allows the work of an artist to feature in a museum exhibition. Notoriety mainly generated by recognition, consolidated in time as a result of repeated appreciation from the part of solid critical sources, or – alternatively – a renown obtained as an effect of spontaneous innovation, not rarely associated by the […]

Țăndărică Theatre’s 70 years of puppetry history presented at the Suțu Palace! Țăndărică Theatre continues its “70  years” anniversay events and invites you to the opening of the exhibition „Țăndărică’s Journey”, a fascinating story that deserves to be seen! The event takes places on Friday, Auguts 7th, 17:00, at the Bucharest Municipality Museum – the […]

The city has built its own form of retaliation, patiently integrating it within the spirits of its dwellers. It is a history thousands of years old, but has picked up speed in the last two centuries, leading to forms of revenge more and more surprising through their variation as the advance of technology modifies our […]

History of Art Association, in partnership with the Bucharest Municipality Museum and the “Brancovan Palaces from Mogoșoaia” Cultural Centre, cordially invite you to attend the opening of the exhibition „The Brancovan Establishments: 1835 – 2015” on Wednesday, April 6th, 18:30, which will be open to the public from April 6th to May 15th 2016 in […]

Also called the “Villa of unrest” and the “Villa with bells” of Doctor Nicolae Minovici, the museum reopens its gate after a century, with its friends nearby: the “Dr. Mina Minovici” National Institute of Forensic Medicine and the “Francisc I. Rainer” Institute of Anthropology, part of the Romanian Academy. Brothers Mina and Nicolae Minovici were […]

The Bucharest Embassy of the Korean Republic (South Korea) organizes the third edition of the Festival of Korean Culture this year. The Festival will take place in Iaşi between the 22nd and the 23rd of June, afterwards continuing in Bucharest between June 24th and July 17th. The event is organized with the support of the […]