Author: Iacob Angelica

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 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 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, […]

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 […]

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 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 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 […]