Museum of the History of the Jewish People in Bucharest

Bucharest, St. Mamulari, No. 3

Museums of Bucharest The Museum of the History of the Jewish People is located in the historical quarter of the Jewish people's residence, in the building of the Great Synagogue, built in 1850. It appeared in January 1978 in a difficult time for the country - the era of the totalitarian regime of Ceausescu.

National Museum of Arts of Romania

Bucuresti, Calea Victoriei, 49-53

Museums of Bucharest The exhibits of the National Museum of Art of Romania are housed in an old neo-classical building, built in 1812. It used to be the main residence of all Romanian kings, and now there are more than 60 thousand items of national and foreign art.

National Museum of Romanian History

Bucuresti, Calea Victoriei, 12

Museums of Bucharest In the heart of the Romanian capital in a luxurious neoclassical building are exhibits of the National Historical Museum of Romania. Once it was the Postal Palace, then the building moved to the Central Post Office, until it was taken over by the History Museum in 1970.

National Museum of the Romanian Peasantry

Bucuresti, Soseaua Pavel Dimitrievici Kiseleff, 3

Museums of Bucharest The evolution of any country often leads to a conflict between tradition and progress, between old foundations and new order, and Romania is no exception. Historians and museum workers seek to capture the unique and distinctive features of peasant life.

National Museum of the village. Dmitry Gusti

Bucuresti, Sos. Kiseleff, nr. 28-30, sector 1

Museums of Bucharest In the heart of the Romanian capital there is a place where for a while you forget that you are in the heart of a modern European metropolis. This is the National Village Museum, more like a nature reserve than a traditional museum.

National Museum of Modern Art in Bucharest

Bucuresti, Sector, 5

Museums of Bucharest The National Museum of Modern Art in Bucharest is located in the world-famous Palace of Parliament - a symbol of the totalitarian past of Romania. For the erection of this monument of human gigantomania in the second half of the 1980s, whole blocks of the "Balkan Paris" were demolished.

In the museums of Bucharest come in search of new impressions and new knowledge about the city .And, I must say, they fully justify the expectations of visitors .Collections kept in museum funds open the viewers - tourists and ordinary townspeople - pages of the past, often sad, often even tragic .The memory of the events of the past years is carefully collected in museum exhibits and carefully arranged at the stands .In the museums of Bucharest national heroes and enemies come to life, periods of prosperity and war years, everyday lives of ordinary people and royal fun .Historical and artistic, entertaining and serious, large and chamber museums invite you to the fragile world of museum art in order to join the history and culture of Bucharest and better understand the worldview of the Romanian people .

Historical and artistic, entertaining and serious, large and chamber museums of Bucharest invite you to the fragile world of museum art.

Historical museums in Bucharest

Historical museums are dedicated to preserving the historical memory of Bucharest and the centuries-old traditions of the city and the whole country. The National Museum of Romanian History is curious in every sense. Firstly, it is located in the building of the Postal Palace, which in itself is considered an interesting landmark. Secondly, the collection of the museum, which takes visitors deep into the ages, contains rare archaeological finds, in particular, remains of Paleolithic people in the territory of modern Romania.

The exhibition halls are filled with national costumes, paintings, sculptures, and applied art.

Given the primary role of agriculture in the life of Romania, it is not surprising that in Bucharest just two museums dedicated to peasant traditions .For more than 100 years, the Museum of the Romanian Peasantry has received visitors, numerous exhibits of which tell of the life and everyday life of peasants .The Village Museum continues its rural theme, created in 1936 .with the participation of King Carol II directly under the open sky .On the territory of 12 hectares a collection of more than 300 village buildings, sent here from various parts of Romania: mills and water, wooden churches and altars, huts, huts and squat dugouts, complexes of typical farmsteads .Some buildings date back to the 18th century .

For fans of history it will be interesting to visit the Museum of the History of the Jewish People. His exhibits carefully trace the histories and destinies of Jewish communities on the territory of modern Romania, recreate their daily and social life, demonstrate the achievements of representatives of Jewish culture in the fields of art and science.

The National Military Museum highlights events from the country's military history. Collections of weapons, Romanian military uniforms, medals, photographs, even guns and airplanes - all these exhibits tell about the most important battles for the independence of Romania.

Art museums

Cognitive discoveries are waiting for visitors to art museums, and there are many of them in Bucharest. To plunge into the world of Romanian art from its very birth to the actual modernity is easy and simple in the National Museum of Arts of Romania. The funds of its two galleries - national and world - are stored more than 70 thousand paintings and sculptures.

In the Romanian collection it is worth noting the works of Brancusi, Grigorescu, Amman and Andreescu, in the foreign vernissage there are paintings by Rembrandt, Rubens, El Greco, Renoir, Cezanne.

The Museum of Modern Art is quite young, its collection is still not so great. However, a huge incentive to visit the museum will be that it occupies part of the Palace of Parliament - a truly incredible and iconic building for the country. In the exhibition halls of the museum there are exhibits representing the most diverse types of art of the 20th and 21st centuries, from painting to incredible installations and video art. Contradictory feelings are caused by a collection of paintings dedicated to the former Romanian leader Ceausescu and his wife.

In the list of the most popular museums in Romania, you can also note the palace of Cotroceni, serving as the presidential residence, with a beautiful park and a collection of items from the medieval era. To the park of the palace adjoins the famous and noteworthy botanical garden. The Brykonyansky Museum, located in the palace complex of Mogosoaia, 16 km from Bucharest, presents an exposition of objects, documents and works of art of feudal times.