Muzeul Național al Țăranului Român
The Muzeul Național al Țăranului Român ( Museum of the Romanian Peasant ) is a museum in Bucharest with a collection of textiles , mainly traditional costumes , icons , ceramics and other artefacts of rural life in Romania . The museum is one of the leading European museums in the field of folk art and was voted " European Museum of the Year " in 1996 .
The museum is subordinate to the Romanian Ministry of Culture and is located on the Kiseleff-Chaussée , not far from the Piața Victoriei . His collection contains over 100,000 objects.
The building has features of traditional Romanian architecture and was built on the site of the former state minting establishment ( Monetăria Statului ). The museum was founded in the 1930s and was initially headed by Alexandru Tzigara-Samurcaș . On 5. February 1990 , barely six weeks after the event and the shooting of Nicolae Ceausescu , it was reopened. During the communist period there was a museum of the Romanian Communist Party in the building, in the basement there is still a room that ironically shows some of the exhibits from this earlier museum. During the miners' revolt of June 1990, the museum was devastated as it was believed to be the seat of the National Peasant Party .
One of the most famous exhibits in the museum is the "house within a house" originally designed by Tzigara-Samurcaș. The house belonged to the farmer Antonie Mogos from the village of Ceauru in Gorj County . From the beginning, the house was shown in a non-naturalistic way: objects from the inside of the building were placed outside in various ways and the outbuildings were only indicated by fragments. The Ceaușescu regime showed the house in the traditional way in the open-air village museum . In 2002 it was returned to the Farm Museum. Today's presentation is again in the non-naturalistic form. For example, museum visitors can look into the attic from a platform, the walls of which have been partially removed; various objects are arranged there.
In 2002, the museum's exhibition area was significantly increased by relocating the museum shop and offices to a new building located behind the museum.
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- ^ "The house in the house", accompanying text, Museum of the Romanian Farmer.
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Coordinates: 44 ° 27 '15.5 " N , 26 ° 5' 1.3" E