Romanian Peasant Museum

Description:

Romanian Peasant Museum is one of the most different museums in the European family of Museum of Art and Popular Traditions.

 

Address: It is situated in Bucharest on Kiseleff Street No.3, near Victory Square.

 

You can find out about the peasant's world coming to the Romanian Peasant Museum. With a history of a century, the red brick building, home of more than 90,000 peasant objects: icons, trinity, crosses, ceramics, fabrics, costumes and ornaments. Some of these objects are presented in exhibitions with a highly anthropological character. We may rediscover a forgotten world, show its beauty, simplicity, power, a modern museum and with an original form which, in 1996, won the Romanian Peasant Museum EMYA - "European Museum of the Year". The Romanian Peasant Museum, named in this way not randomly, considers useful to present the image of the peasant and his universe.

 

The method of access: With the subway, on the M1, M2, up to Piata Victoriei (Victoria Square); with bus no. 300 to stop the Romanian Peasant Museum, from Otopeni airport, bus no. 783 to Piata Victoriei(Victoria Square)

 

Services: ramp for the access of disabled people, cafe club, restaurant, art-shop, library. General guide is offered only to official delegations. Audio guide service is available to all basic exposure, in English, French, German (Rate - 10 lei ( ~ 2,5 euro) / camera).

The museum organizes educational programs for permanent schools and kindergartens to adolescents (Creativity Workshop: Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays from 10.00 to 14.00; throughout the school year children can enroll in the workshops of Ethnology (7 to 14 years) of modeling in clay (5 -18 years), embroidery (12 -18 years), photography (14 to 18 years), to read and illustrated stories (5 to 14 years), the visits and lectures in the museum), for adult audiences (voluntary program for projects undertaken by the museum).

 

Open: Tuesday - Sunday 10.00 - 18.00, Monday closed.

 

Rates:

 

The permanent exhibition - 6 lei- ticket price for adults, 2 lei- ticket price for students, retired persons, 3 lei- ticket price for holders of Euro 26 Card