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 […]
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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 […]
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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 first, this vehicle […]
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Thematic exhibition at 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. Aiming to […]
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From July 15th 2020 THEMATIC EXHIBITION AT SUȚU PALACE NICOLAE GRIGORESCU AND THE POETRY OF THE IMAGE The Bucharest Municipality Museum invites you to admire from July 15th to August 16th 2020, at the Suțu Palace, a number of six paintings of Nicolae Grigorescu adding and completing, in a special medallion, the thematic exhibition Still […]
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From July 3, 2020 THEMATIC EXHIBITION AT SUȚU PALACE MEDIEVAL BUCHAREST OF THE MAVROCORDAT FAMILY The Bucharest Municipality Museum invites the public to discover a new thematic exhibition at Suțu Palace (2 Ion C. Brătianu Blvd) – “Medieval Bucharest of the Mavrocordat family” ‒ which opens on Friday, July 3, 2020, 11:00. “The age of […]
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Născută la Chișinău, Aura Christi este poet, romancier și eseist român. Din 2001, este redactorul șef al revistei „Contemporanul. Ideea europeană”. Este deopotrivă membră a Uniunii Scriitorilor din România și Uniunii Scriitorilor din Moldova. „Contemporanul. Ideea europeană” și „București în 5 minute”. Împreună. O consacrată revistă națională de cultură și o publicație cu profil istoric […]
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FROM JULY 24th 2020 THEMATIC EXHIBITION AT SUTU PALACE ADVERTISING SHAPES THE WORLD – A JOURNEY THROUGH THE BUCHAREST MUSEUM’S COLLECTIONS The thematic exhibition will be presented between July 24 and September 13, 2020, at the Suțu Palace. The Museum of Bucharest, through its heritage collections, offers the general public a nostalgic journey, an expression […]
Read MoreOCTOBER 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 […]
Read MoreMONTHLY 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 […]
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