18 September 2018
MIRACULOUS HEALINGS: “MARIUS BUNESCU” – REVELATIONS ABOUT PAINTERS AND THEIR WORK THROUGH THE PRISM OF RESTORATION
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 […]
12 December 2018
Elites and Coats of Arms in the Old Bucharest
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 […]
8 June 2018
SUȚU PALACE AT THE FESTIVAL OF KOREAN CULTURE
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 […]
19 September 2018
EXHIBITION: MARGARETA PÂSLARU – AUTUMN, LET MY TREES STAY GREEN/HERE, HAVE MY EYES INSTEAD
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 […]
19 September 2018
MIRACULOUS HEALINGS – ION ȚUCULESCU (1910 – 1962)
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 […]
19 September 2018
EXHIBITION “AGE AT A GLANCE” – AT FILIPESCU-CESIANU HOUSE
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 […]
26 November 2018
Music at home – how we banish boredom
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 […]
18 September 2018
MIRACULOUS HEALINGS – NICOLAE GRIGORESCU (1838-1907)
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 […]
8 June 2018
PHOTOGRAPHERS OF BUCHAREST: ALFONS EBNER
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 – […]
19 September 2018
THREE EXHIBITIONS ABOUT THE FIRST WORLD WAR AT THE SUȚU PALACE
“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 […]
12 June 2020
CARICATURE AND HUMOR – A SATIRIC “PEN” FROM THE BUCHAREST MUNICIPALITY MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
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 […]
8 June 2018
MIRACULOUS HEALINGS – NICOLAE VERMONT (1866- 1932) REVELATIONS ON PAINTERS AND THEIR WORKS THROUGH THE PROCESS OF RESTAURATION
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 […]
18 September 2018
MIRACULOUS HEALINGS – MICAELA ELEUTHERIADE
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. […]
19 September 2018
MIRACULOUS HEALINGS – MARCEL IANCU (1895 – 1984)
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 […]
19 September 2018
BUCHAREST: A “NOVECENTO” PORTRAIT. THE STORY OF A CENTURY IN 555 ANNIVERSARIES
“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. […]
19 September 2018
MIRACULOUS HEALINGS: MIȘU POPP (1827 – 1892)
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 […]
13 August 2018
THE SUBTERRANEAN CITY. BUCHAREST BETWEEN SACRED AND PROFANE
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 […]
19 September 2018
THE NATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY SALON “FOTOGEOGRAFICA” – 20th EDITION
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 […]
12 December 2018
The Portrait as a Biography of Innocence. An Inter-War Photographer: Dumitru Furnică-Minovici (1897-1982)
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 […]
8 June 2018
THE HISTORY OF MONETARY CIRCULATION IN BUCHAREST AND ITS SURROUNDINGS
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 […]
19 September 2018
FOR A HISTORY OF SYMBOLS: TATTOOS IN ROMANIA
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 […]
19 September 2018
THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ANTIQUITIES: AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL JOURNEY
“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 […]
19 September 2018
#FIND US – BEYOND THE CAMERA
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 […]
19 September 2018
THE FIFTH EDITION OF THE COMIC STRIP SALON – “TALES OF BUCHAREST” IN COMIC STRIPS
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 […]
19 September 2018
MIRACULOUS HEALINGS – RUDOLF SCHWEITZER CUMPĂNA
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 […]
19 September 2018
THE BEGINNINGS OF PHOTOGRAPHY IN BUCHAREST. MASTERS AND IMAGES OF THE 19th CENTURY
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 […]
19 September 2018
MIRACULOUS HEALINGS – GHEORGHE TATTARESCU
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 […]
8 June 2018
“BUCHAREST – FROM THE PATRIARCHAL CITY TO THE CAPITAL OF GREAT ACHIEVEMENTS”
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 […]
8 June 2018
SIGNS AND SYMBOLS – APOPHENIC VISIONS IN THE FRACTALIC REALM
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 […]
18 September 2018
OUTDOOR PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION – “100 YEARS OF ROMANIAN MEDICINE”
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 […]
8 June 2018
MONETARY CIRCULATION AT THE TIME OF MIRCEA THE ELDER
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, […]
19 September 2018
MIRACULOUS HEALINGS – THE MISTERIES OF THEODOR AMAN’S PAINTINGS
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 […]
5 December 2018
The Whims of Fashion in the 19th Century Bucharest
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 […]
19 September 2018
BUCHAREST’S MONTH AFTER 80 YEARS (1935 – 2015)
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, […]
19 September 2018
WAR BETWEEN MYTH AND ART
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 […]
19 September 2018
PHOTO-CABINET EXHIBITION (FEBRUARY-APRIL 2016)
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 […]
19 September 2018
EXHIBITION: A TRIP INTO THE HISTORY OF THE BERCENI DISTRICT
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 […]
10 December 2018
Gheorghe Leahu – Bucharest’s Architectonic Curiosities
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 […]
8 June 2018
A SHORT HISTORY OF RETALIATION DUEL OR MURDER?
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 […]
8 June 2018
THE THIRD EDITION OF THE COMIC STRIP SALON – TALES OF BUCHAREST IN COMIC STRIPS
The third edition of the Comic Strip Salon – Stories of Bucharest in Comic Strips will take place at the Filipescu-Cesianu House (Calea Victoriei No. 151), a museum belonging to the Bucharest Municipality Museum. This year the Bucharest National University of Art will be the Salon’s special guest. During the salon, authors are invited to […]
19 September 2018
BREASTFEEDING IS LOVE
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, […]
8 June 2018
THE PINACOTHEQUE OF BUCHAREST – AN INTER-WAR PROJECT
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 […]
19 September 2018
ARCHITECTURAL VALUES OF DOBROGEA
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 […]
8 June 2018
PREHISTORIC ITEMS FROM THE SEVEREANU COLLECTION
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 […]
19 September 2018
WAR JOURNAL
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 […]
12 December 2018
People of Bucharest. Our City and Portrait
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 […]
8 June 2018
THE EXHIBITION “THE LOST HOSPITALS OF BUCHAREST” AT FILANTROPIA HOSPITAL
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 […]
19 September 2018
EXHIBITION “THE SAMARIANS OF MARKOWA” – AT THE SUȚU PALACE
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 […]
19 September 2018
“1814 THE YEAR OF MIRACLES” 1814 – 2014 BICENTENNARY OF THE NORWEGIAN CONSTITUTION
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 […]
8 June 2018
UNIFYING PHYSIOGNOMIES “ALL IN ONE” – THE STORY OF A COUNTRY’S MAKING
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 […]
8 June 2018
MIRACULOUS HEALINGS REVEALING PAINTERS AND THEIR WORK THROUGH THE LENSE OF RESTORATION THEODOR PALLADY
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. […]
10 August 2018
1989 The Liberation
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 […]
8 June 2018
THE EXHIBITION “THE FILIPESCU-CESIANU HOUSE – THE STORY OF REHABILITATION”
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 […]
8 June 2018
BUCHAREST UNDER OCCUPATION (1916-1918)
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 […]
19 September 2018
MIRACULOUS HEALINGS – NICU ENEA (1897 – 1960)
Nicu Enea was born on May 28th 1897 in the village of Valea Arinilor, Bacău county, the son of a peasant family. After finishing primary school he enrolled at the Normal School for teachers in Piatra Neamț. From 1921 to 1928 he intermittently attended the School of Belle Arte in Bucharest. Here he studied drawing […]
19 September 2018
THE YEARS HAVE GONE BY…
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 […]
12 December 2018
Constantin I. Nottara: Theater is my life!
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 […]
8 June 2018
ARTISTS AT THE MUSEUM
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 […]
19 September 2018
EXHIBITION: “LA ROUMANIE – THE VISION OF A SWISS ANTHROPOLOGIST” OCTOBER 19th 2015
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 […]
18 September 2018
THE EXHIBITION “ART AND AMBIANCE IN BUCHAREST – FIRST HALF OF THE 20th CENTURY
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 […]
19 September 2018
LOST GARDENS OF BUCHAREST
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 […]
8 June 2018
AN (UN) FORGOTTEN HISTORY: THE OLD PRINCELY COURT MUSEUM”
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 […]
8 June 2018
THE FOURTH EDITION OF THE COMIC STRIP SALON – TALES OF BUCHAREST IN COMIC STRIPS
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 […]
19 September 2018
TEMPORARY EXHIBITION: “EX LIBRIS MEIS – FROM MY BOOKS”. BOOKS WITH PAGE MARKINGS FROM THE BUCHAREST MUNICIPALITY MUSEUM LIBRARY
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 […]