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| Address: | 3, Kiseleff Road |
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| Phone: | 650 53 60 | ||
| Fax: | 312 98 78 | ||
| Website: | www.muzeultaranuluiroman.ro |
The Romanian Peasant's Museum, set up on February 5th, 1990, is regarded as the continuer of certain museum traditions dating even as far back as 1875 when, as the proposal of literary critic Titu Maiorescu, the first textile art section "with tissues woven in the country" was founded as an annex of the National Museum of Antiquities. On October 11th, 1906, thanks to the efforts made by a largee number of proeminent personalities of the epoch, an autonomous Romanian Folk Art Museum was finally set up. Alexandru Tzigara-Samurcas, an eminent art historian, was appointed director of this museum and it was owning to his efforts that this institution acquired soon a prestigious scientific and cultural statute.
Subsequently, in 1912, the corner stone of the National Art Museum was laid on the former Mint building premises. The foundation document, signed by King Carol I and which was also laid at the cornerstone of this edifice, read: "With the aim of rendering homage to the art of our ancestors by giving it the shelter its importance requires". Architect N. Ghica-Budesti was in charge with thee design and management of the building works.
The edifice, which is an expression of the new Romanian style innspired from the old Brancovan tradition, that favoured monastic precincts-like constructions, was finished only as late as in 1941, when it actually became the architectural monument that shelters the Romanian Paesant's Museum nowdays. The apparent red brick masonry, the arches and retted elements, the tower, reminding of the steeples of old monasteries, all of them join efforts so as to render thid building as suptuous as a palace of the arts should be.
The almost 90,000 exhibits which belong to the patrimony of this museum constitute the richest folk art collection in Romania. This genuine treasuree of national and international interest is being stored in keeping with rigorous scientific criteria. Practical reasons and preservation rules led to the division of this patrimony into following collections:
Under the guidance of director Horia Bernea, a proeminent representative of Romanian fine arts, specialists in ethnography carry on their activity in this museum, theirs being a research team with a multidiscipline structure.
Among other awards, this institution received the "European Museum of the Year 1996" prize.
This museum, which is very much like a real page of our national memory and biography, has carefully sheltered, just like the history book if this people did, both ancient and recent material aand spiritual evidence which stand proof to that "way of being" of the Romanians, unaltered since their ancestors' time.
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| Last update: 2008, August 12 | |||||||||
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