Minovici and Storck museums temporarily closed

Folk Art Museum “Dr. Nicolae Minovici” and the “Frederic Storck and Cecilia Cuțescu-Storck” Museum of the Bucharest Municipal Museum (MMB) are closed for technical reasons, according to the institution.

Both museum buildings lack heating. “The MMB will include this year an investment for the purchase of a heat pump for the Dr. Nicolae Minovici Museum. The expenditure will be included in the institution’s draft budget and we hope that this investment will not be eliminated again, as it has been in the last three years. In the Storck Museum there are very old, non-functional original stoves, and the owner of the building is responsible for their repair”, the representatives of the Storck Museum told curatorial.

The status of the building housing the Frederic Storck and Cecilia Cuțescu-Storck Museum is unchanged. It is still owned by the Botez brothers, with the museum using the same space under a 10-year loan contract.

The patrimony of the museum is a donation made in October 1951 by Cecilia Cuțescu-Storck and her daughters, Gabriela Florica Storck and Cecilia Frederica Storck-Botez, to the People’s Council of the Capital. The house, an architectural monument built by the two artists between 1911 and 1913, preserves the work of an entire family of visual artists.

More than two years ago, Adrian Majuru, director of the MMB, explained to the curatorial that negotiations were taking place between the City Hall and the heirs, the owners of the house, regarding the takeover of the building by the State. According to information submitted on January 31, 2025 by MMB, negotiations are ongoing.

This post is also available in: Română (Romanian)