Bucharest Pinacoteca Receives Seventy Works of Art

Seventy art objects – paintings, sculptures and decorative art – were donated to the Bucharest Municipality Museum for the Bucharest Pinacoteca project by Banca Comercială Română.

The works come from the bank’s own collections and bear the signatures of Romanian artists such as Milița Petrașcu, Gheorghe Anghel, Ion Mândrescu, Marius Bunescu, Teodor Vescu, Petru Lucaci, Florin Ciubotaru and Alexandru Ghilduș.

The works of art have already been taken over by the Bucharest Municipality Museum and will become part of the patrimony of the ever-growing Bucharest Art Gallery. Founded in 1933, the Pinacoteca currently contains around 5,700 works and is one of the most important collections of the Bucharest City Hall.

Pinacoteca Municipiului București, a long-discussed project, is now on the verge of becoming a reality. In 2013, the General Council of the Municipality of Bucharest bought the Dacia-Romania Palace, and in 2019 it handed it over to the Bucharest Municipal Museum (MMB). Since then, plans are being made on how this space will become worthy of hosting the capital’s great art collection. On 6 August 2025, the palace is due to be vacated by the Art Society Cultural Centre Foundation, which is organizing Art Safari in partnership with the MMB, and by 1 January 2026 at the latest, renovation and reconsolidation work is scheduled to begin. In the first phase, the Dacia-Romania Palace will be rehabilitated so that it can be set up as a museum space.