EXHIBITIONS ARCHIVE

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 […]

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 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 […]

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 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

“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. […]

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 […]

  The Journey Beyond Funeral rites in Varna and the region in ancient times The exhibition displays finds from grave complexes in the city of Varna, Bulgaria and its surroundings. The central theme of the exhibition is to demonstrate the varied representations of the afterlife as reflected in funeral rites that have been practiced over […]

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 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 […]

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 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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 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 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 […]

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 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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

THEMATIC EXHIBITION AT THE LIGIA AND POMPILIU MACOVEI ART COLLECTION“From Filaret Lane to 11 June Street” Through this exhibition project, we invite you to discover the story of an area of Bucharest that once stood at the city’s edge but gradually became the witness of essential events in the history of modern Romania. Filaret Lane, […]

  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 […]

From November 21, 2025 THEMATIC EXHIBITION AT THE VICTOR BABEȘ MUSEUMCures and Remedies from Old Drugstores and PharmaciesThe Archaeology of Everyday Life in 19th-Century Bucharest The Bucharest Municipality Museum invites the public to discover the universe of pharmacies and drugstores in old Bucharest. The exhibition brings together archival images, period advertisements, and objects recovered during […]

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 […]

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 […]

THEMATIC EXHIBITION AT SUȚU PALACE “Funerary Art in the Romanian Cultural Space. Themes and Symbols Based on the Sketches of Frederic Storck” Death, as an inevitable part of human existence, has always been accompanied by a profound fascination with the afterlife and a particular respect for those who have passed away. These concerns, often charged […]

STARTING WITH NOVEMBER 2017 UNIFYING PHYSIOGNOMIES “ALL IN ONE” – THE STORY OF A COUNTRY’S MAKING “The future will belong to the mind if we want to survive. We need our minds to be free, critical and independent.” (Călin Georgescu) Great accomplishments are first and foremost spiritual. This is the starting point. When a desire […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

The Bucharest Municipality Museum and Spiru Haret University of Architecture cordially invite yout to attend the opening of the exhibition “Bucharest in the Projects of Architecture Students from Spiru Haret University”, taking place on Tuesday, April 19th 2016, 18:00, at the Suțu Palace. The teaching activity at the Architecture Department of Spiru Haret University is […]

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 […]

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 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 has an invaluable patrimony of great potential. After the exhibition Unifying Physiognomies, we are now offering the public, especially the young one, a selection of our Pinacotheque’s most relevant pieces on World War I and the Centenary. We consider that this moment that we are all living, the celebration of 100 […]

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 […]

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 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 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 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 […]

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 […]

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 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 […]

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 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 […]

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 […]

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 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 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. […]

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 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]