EXHIBITIONS ARCHIVE

The Old Princely Court invites you on Wednesday, October 1st 2014, 18:00, to attend the opening of the group exhibition URBAN SOLITARY, featuring artists Christian Paraschiv, Justinian Scărlătescu, Cristi Gașpar, Lucian Muntean, the focAR group (Răzvan Neagoe and Alina Tudor), Maria Pop Timaru and Raluca Ghideanu, curator Adina Niculae, as part of the Bucharest Art […]

After the restoration of the Filipescu-Cesianu House of Calea Victoriei, one of the main goals of the museum has been to transform most of the building rooms into modern and interesting exhibition spaces for the public. The theme of the exhibition “Goddesses and shamans in ancient beliefs. Anthropo-zoomorphic representations – from art to identity” was […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

MONETARY CIRCULATION AT THE TIME OF MIRCEA THE ELDER The age of Mircea the Elder is considered to be the period of progressive consolidation of the Wallachian Medieval State, when important economic changes and the establishment of political, social and spiritual structures occur. The economic progress of Wallachia is due to the development of agriculture, […]

A Christmas present, minutely prepared by the Theodor Aman Museum: the opening of a new exhibition room that comes to complete the museum’s patrimony and to continue the “Miraculous Healings” series with new restored paintings by BMM’s experts. One of Theodor Aman favorite subjects was still life with cherries. Although in the majority of this […]

After Romania joined the First World War, Bucharest became the third European Capital, after Paris and London, to be bombed by the German air force. These days were marked by terror in the city, associated with the discovery that certain food items had been contaminated with strands of bacteria responsible for cholera, typhoid fever, anthrax […]

The Bucharest Municipality Museum cordially invites you to attend the exhibition “A Trip Into the History of Berceni District”, opened between February 3rd and April 3rd 2016 in the Lapidarium room of the Filipescu-Cesianu House. The exhibition’s concept is part of the project “Neighbourhood Stories” to which new elements were added (about 30 photographs belonging […]

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 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Eighty-five years since the death of painter Nicolae Vermont and 151 years since his birth, the “Nicolae Vermont” exhibition opened in June 2017 features eight works of art from the Bucharest Municipality Museum Pinacothèque collection that mark key moments from the artist’s creative process, from his early stages to the more mature phases, researched and […]

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 […]

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 […]

“Bucharest: A Novecento portrait. The Story of a Century in 555 Anniversaries” is an exhibition aiming to tell the story of Bucharest in the 20th century. It will be on display from March 11th to April 30th at Grand Hotel Continental with special guests Emanuel Bădescu and Adrian Crăciunescu. “The city lives through many souls. […]

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 […]

STARTING JULY 2019 THEMATIC EXHIBITION AT THE SUȚU PALACE PEOPLE OF BUCHAREST. OUR CITY AND PORTRAIT From July 3rd to December 8th, the Bucharest Municipality Museum offers the public a thematic exhibition featuring portrait-images of some of Bucharest’s inhabitants who lived in our city, starting from the 18th century until today. The human figure is […]

The Bucharest Municipality Museum along with the “Vasile Pârvan” Institute of Archaeology invites the public to discover a new section of the National Museum of Antiquities exhibition. An archaeological exhibition, hosted by the George Severeanu Museum, until July 10th 2016. The “Vasile Pârvan” Institute of Archaeology, the continuation of the National Museum of Antiquities, is […]

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 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 […]

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 […]

The Filipescu-Cesianu House December 4th – 21st 2015 The Bucharest Municipality Museum, The Order of Romanian Architects – Dobrogea and The Order of Romanian Architects – Bucharest, have the honor to welcome you at the exhibition “Architectural Values of Dobrogea”, on December 4th – 21st 2015 in the Lapidarium Room Of the Filipescu-Cesianu House, 151 […]

“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 photography technique, a new practice imported in Romania from the West, amazed the entire population of Bucharest at the middle of the 19th century. Interest in photography started to appear in our country likely around 1834 when a pharmacist lost his life after working with bromine during his relative researches on photography. On February […]

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 […]

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 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

“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 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 […]

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 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 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 […]

The exhibition Photographic Evidence of the 4th of March 1977 Earthquake can be visited between the March, 4th and April, 30th 2017 at the ground floor of Suțu Palace, in the recently renewed rooms. The exhibition contains images owned by the Bucharest Municipality Museum, showcasing the consequences of the worst quake in the post-war era, […]

The Bucharest Municipality Museum and “Carol Davila” University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Bucharest are proud to announce the opening of the outdoor photography exhibition “100 years of Romanian Medicine”. The exhibition is split into two modules that can be visited at two different locations of the “Carol Davila” University of Medicine and Pharmacy: at […]

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. […]

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 […]

“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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

  The Bucharest Municipality Museum and “My Dear Bucharest” Association cordially invite you to attend a unique exhibition that recovers fragments of subject from our recent history: “Age at a Glance”. The exhibition opening will take place Tuesday, September 19th, 18:00, in the courtyard of the Filipescu-Cesianu House. If “The Museum of Ages”, the permanent […]

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 […]

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 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 […]

FROM DECEMBER 2nd 2020 THEMATIC EXHIBITION AT THE SUȚU PALACE CARICATURE AND HUMOR – A SATIRIC “PEN” FROM THE BUCHAREST MUNICIPALITY MUSEUM COLLECTIONS   The exhibition on the theme of caricature and humor will be presented to the general public, between December 2020 and March 2021, at the Suțu Palace, and will highlight cultural objects […]

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 […]

From October 20th to November 20th 2015, the Bucharest Municipality Museum is hosting the event-exhibition “Breastfeeding is Love” by Cristina Nichituș Roncea, a photographer we have had the pleasure to host before with her “As it is in Heaven – Journey through the Romanian orthodox world”. This time “Breastfeeding is Love” will be exhibited outside, […]

The exhibition 1989 The Liberation Opening: 22 September 2018 Photo: Zafer Galibov   1989 began without announcing anything special. The routine of a regular day had been the same for decades, and millions of Romanians had abided by it, in a complete quotidian symbiosis. On one hand, there were festive collective marches and spectacles dedicated […]

The 20th edition of Romania’s International Photography Salon (RIPS) will take place on Tuesday, January 12th 2016, 18:00, at the Bucharest Municipality Museum (2 Ion C. Brătianu Street) as part of the event called “The Day of Romanian Photography”. Considered to be the most important event for Romanian photography, with a history spanning more than […]

The exhibition project titled Photographers of Bucharest, started in 2015, with the city’s first photographers from the period between 1850 and 1900 continues this year with one of the most well-know photographers of the inter-war time. The exhibition dedicated to Alfons Ebner will be open to the public at the Bucharest Municipality Museum’s headquarters – […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

“Bucharest: a Novecento Portrait. The Story of a Century in 555 Anniversaries” is a book and an exhibition that open one another in order to share the story of Bucharest in the 20th century. There are books adapted into films, books adapted into theatre and plays and books adapted into exhibitions. “Bucharest: a Novecento Portrait. […]

The Bucharest Municipality Museum invites you to the exhibition titled “Signs and symbols – Apophenic visions in the fractalic realm”, open at the Dr. Nicolae Minovici Museum – The Conference Hall, between November 26th 2016 and May 28th 2017, fromWednesday to Sunday, between 10h00 and 18h00 (ticket office closes at 17h00). The Museum is located […]

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 […]