Bucharest best museums

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The most important and most visited museums in Bucharest are:

• Village Museum Bucharest

It was founded in 1936 by Dimitrie Gusti and is one of the most interesting ethnographical parks in open air in the world. The museum is located in the Herastrau.

In just two months, teams of specialists and students, led by Professors D. Gusti and HH Stahl, purchased from the studied villages peasant buildings (houses, household annexes, churches, plant) and indoor objects (furniture, ceramics, fabrics, tools, etc..), all of these considered representative for their places of origin. Copies of the houses and households are exposed on ethnographic areas.

The official opening of the museum took place on May 10, 1936, in the presence of King Carol II and to the public, a week later.

Between 1936-1940, the Village Museum in Bucharest had 6.5 ha of land, on which 33 authentic complexes were located, transferred from the studied villages: economic annex houses, a church (from Maramures County), crucifix, installation technical, fountains and a swing.

Between 1940-1948, the museum was in the situation of no longer being able to continue the activity and to close its gates because in some households of the museum, refugee families from Bucovina and Basarabia who came to our territory as a result the incorporation of Basarabia and Bucovina and a part of the land Herta and Bucovina to the Soviet Union were hosted. This led to the destruction of a significant number of buildings.

The realization of a new strategy for the development of the patrimony, supported by the need to increase the exhibition space of the museum, led to expansion of areas intended to the presentation of the monuments to 6.9 ha and to the growth and diversification of the collections. The heritage of outdoor exhibition is enriched, reaching a total of 62 architectural complexes with 223 units (40 houses, 165 household annexes, 3 churches, 15 plant and craft workshops), summing up an inventory of 17,000 objects.

Among the monuments acquired from different parts of the country we may notice  farms and houses from Suceava, Vaslui, Valcea, Constanta, Alba, Hunedoara, Maramures, etc.

During the communist period museum it was wanted to move the Museum to another location, outside Bucharest. The communists wanted to build a new residential complex for the party members.

With the revolution of December 1989, the Village Museum regains individuality. Research campaigns and acquisitions in recent years have increased the heritage of outdoor exhibition and the collections. Currently, the permanent exhibition comprises 121 separate complex, a total of 338 monuments and mobile assets totalling 53,828 items.

Two dramatic events, that fire in September 1997, and one in February 2002, affecting a number of monuments and the related objects inventory, but in a relatively short time some monuments have been restored for the normal visits.

• Peasant Museum

It was founded on February 5^th, 1990. In 1996 it was considered by the Council of Europe the best European museum of the year.

The museum continues the traditions dating back to 1875 when, besides the National Museum of Antiquity, the first section of textile art "works of the country side" was constituted.

At the end of 1906, it was established an independent museum of Romanian folk art. In 1912 it was set the foundation of the National Art Museum. In the  founding document, signed by King Carol I and taken to the foundation of the building, was recorded that the museum was necessary "to honour ancestral art with a worthy shelter of its significance". The project management activities were entrusted to  the architect N. Ghica-Budesti.

The works were completed in 1941, the building take the form of the nowadays monument of architecture which houses the headquarters of the Romanian Peasant Museum. The works of art that are housed in museum patrimony represent the richest collection of popular art in Romania.

• Other museums in Bucharest:

Romanian National History Museum has over 50,000 pieces of great value that show the development of the society in Romania since ancient times until today.

National Art Museum of Romania, including over 70,000 pieces of art exhibited in the Romanian section (feudal, modern and contemporary), and in the universal art department (European, Oriental). Among the many artists whose works are found in the museum: Tattarescu, Th. Aman, Nicolae Grigorescu, St.. Luchian, Th. Pallady, N. Tonitza, C. Brancusi, D. Paciurea, I. Jalea, Antonello of Messina, Rembrandt, Rubens, Delacroix, Renoir, Monet.

Museum of Natural History "Grigore Antipa" is one of the oldest in Europe. It has over 300,000 exhibits and one of the richest collections of butterflies in Europe.

History and Art Museum of Bucharest expose more than 150,000 pieces, depicting the history of Bucharest in ancient times (Neolithic) until today.

Central Military Museum has a priceless heritage held on 32 military history collections (weapons, documents, paintings, uniforms, flags, medals).

Romanian Literature Museum possesses a valuable fund of manuscripts, documents, old books, first editions, offering an image of the  development of Romanian literature.

"Theodor Aman" Museum - exhibits, mostly works of the artist, and evokes in 9 rooms the steps taken by the painter (1831-1891), in his work of creation. It is organized in the house where the great artist lived and which was decorated by himself;

"George Enescu" Memorial Museum is hosted by Cantacuzino Palace. The great musician lived and created in this third-party location. George Enescu (1881-1955) was the founder of the Romanian music school,

Tattarescu Memorial Museum "is in the house where he lived and created for over three decades. Tattarescu (1820-1894) is one of the founders of the artistic education in Romania and is particularly remarked in portraiture and for painting of many churches.

Art Collections Museum contains valuable exhibits of Romanian and foreign paintings, icons, drawings, engravings, sculptures in wood and ivory, pottery from different countries.

Cotroceni National Museum has collections of European decorative house art.

National Theatre Museum was founded by the initiative of the writer Liviu Rebreanu, director of the theatre, in 1942;

Fire fighters' Museum exhibits maps, weapons, equipment of fire departments. The museum is housed in the building that has a height of 50 m and served as an observer of fire and the fire station.

"Cornel Medrea" Museum includes most of the works of sculptor (1888-1964), which offers a broad vision of the artist's creation account.

"CI and CC Nottara" Memorial Museum which illustrates the work of the actor and the composer CI Nottara CC Nottara.