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Exhibits of the National Museum of Art of Romania are housed in an old neo-classical building, built in 1812 .Once it served as the main residence of all Romanian kings, and now it stores over 60 thousand .subjects of national and foreign art .The time period of the Romanian exhibitions covers the whole history of fine arts .Attention visitors are presented with old icons, early painting, as well as modern works up to the middle of the 20th century .In the exhibition halls are exhibited paintings of the famous Romanian artist Nicolae Grigorescu, impressionists Jon Andresescu and Stefan Lucian, surrealist Victor Brauner, portraitist Corneliu Baba .Along with painting, sculpture works are represented in the museum, especially the works of Dimitri Pachurea and Constantine Brancusi .

The history of the Museum of Arts of Romania began in 1950 with the creation of an exhibition of foreign art, which included 214 paintings from the personal collection of King Carol I.

European Art Gallery

The collection of the European Art Gallery contains more than three thousand exhibits, including paintings, sculpture, and graphics. The Italian art is very diverse, the exhibition halls are decorated with works of artists from Florence, Venice, Bologna, Rome and Naples. In particular, you can see the paintings of the Italian painter of the early Renaissance Domenico Veneziano, the representative of Florentine painting Agnolo Bronzino, the representative of the Venetian school Jacopo Bassano, the legendary Tintoretto and others.

In the section of Spanish art, you can see three works by El Greco, as well as paintings by Francisco Zurbaran and Alonso Cano. The Dutch collection features the works of Baroque painter Rachel Ruysch, painter Peter Brueghel the Younger, a member of the Royal Academy of Painting Peter van Mole, as well as Peter Paul Rubens and the largest representative of the golden age of Dutch painting Rembrandt.

The section of German painting is dedicated to the work of painter and graphic artist Hans von Aachen, painter of the Renaissance Lucas Cranach the Elder. In the collection of French impressionists draw attention to the paintings of Claude Monet, Alfred Sisley and Paul Signac. The collection of Russian painting includes the works of Ilya Repin, Valentin Serov, Ivan Aivazovsky, Philip Malyavin.

They took their places on the exhibition stands of the museum and applied arts, samples of antique furniture, faience wares, tapestries, handmade carpets, tableware, embroidery and lace.

From the history of the museum

The history of the Museum of Arts of Romania began in 1950 .with the creation of an exhibition of foreign art, which included 214 paintings from the personal collection of King Carol I .Here were collected true masterpieces - paintings by El Greco, Rembrandt, Peter Brueghel the Elder, Rubens, Domenico Veneziano .Then others joined this collection, in particular, several paintings from the funds of the Museum of Brookenthal in Sibiu .In 1989, .the museum's work was suspended: the building in which it was located, was partially destroyed during the revolution in Bucharest, and more than a thousand exhibits are irretrievably lost .For ten long years the museum remained closed to the public, holding temporary exhibitions abroad, while in 2000 .The European Art Gallery was not opened, and a year later the Romanian art exhibition was opened .

National Museum of Arts of Romania

Helpful information

Address: Bucharest, Calea Victoriei, 49-53.

Phone: +40 (21) 313-30-30.

Fax: + 40 (21) 312-43-27.

Opening hours: Wednesday - Sunday: 11:00 - 19:00 (May - September), 10:00 - 18:00 (October - April), Monday, Tuesday: closed (the ticket office closes half an hour before the museum closes). @

The museum also does not work on January 2 and 24, on the first and second day of Easter, on the first and second days of Pentecost, May 1, August 15, November 30, December 1, 25 and 26.

Entrance: 8 ROL (European Art Gallery), 8 ROL (National Gallery, including treasury), 10-20 ROL (combined ticket). For children under 7 years old, visitors with disabilities are admitted free of charge. For certain categories of citizens, a visit is preferential. Tickets for temporary exhibitions are purchased separately, the cost is 4-10 ROL. Photo and video shooting are paid, the cost is 50-100 ROL.

How to get there: the nearest metro stations are Piata Romana and Universitate, near the bus stops No. 122, 126, 137, 178, 268, 300, 336, 368, 601 and trolleybuses No. 61, 66, 69, 70, 85, 90, 91, 92.


Prices are indicated as of January 2015