Original custom-made furniture, rare books, and archaeological and numismatic heritage objects are part of the collection of radiologist George Severeanu, the first director of the Bucharest Municipality Museum (MMB). Ancient Greek vases, clay statuettes, bronze and marble objects, Roman glassware, ancient
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
Bucharest Pinacoteca, a long-discussed, sometimes forgotten project, is now on the verge of becoming a reality. In 2013, the General Council of Bucharest bought the Dacia-Romania Palace, and in 2019 it handed it over to the Bucharest Municipal Museum (MMB).
Most Romanian art collectors are aged between 45 and 54, buy mainly paintings, own around twenty pieces and visit about two art fairs a year. For many, buying art is a moderate investment rather than a major financial commitment. These
The charcoal drawing “The Carrot Picker” by Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), the only work by the artist in a Romanian museum collection, was bought by Alexandru Slătineanu in 1900, when he was preparing his PhD thesis at the
Photographs by Nan Goldin, Carlos Saura and Valie Export, among others, are part of the Seville Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo collection, thanks to purchases and donations. Eighty artists are gathered under the title “Diversidad en la colección CAAC”, which can
There are several types of collectors and two fundamentally different practices. Ovidiu Șandor, art collector and president of the Art Encounters Foundation, revealed in Krakow, after the opening of his exhibition ‘One Eye Laughs, Another Cries’ during the Romania-Poland Cultural Season,
United States Capitol employees are responsible for the care and preservation of more than 300 works of art, architectural elements, landscape elements and more. The iconic neoclassical architecture of the Rotunda, designed to reflect the ideals of the nation, has