National Museum of Contemporary Art description and photos - Romania: Bucharest (Topic)

National Museum of Contemporary Art description and photos - Romania: Bucharest. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photographs and a map showing the nearest significant objects. The title in English is National Museum of Contemporary Art.

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This is the newest of the capital's museums. Unlike all others located in old mansions or former palaces, the Museum of Modern Art is also located in a modern building, built in 1984-1989. This is the Palace of Parliament, one of the largest buildings on earth, second only to the Pentagon in size. For guests of Bucharest, the incentive to visit the museum is largely due to the fact that it is located in an incredible and iconic palace for the country. This grand creation by former Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu is itself an example of contemporary art. The eleven-story building consists of 1,100 rooms, about 30 of them are halls for celebrations and concert halls. The luxuriously decorated Palace of Parliament now houses the Romanian Chamber of Deputies and the Senate. Since 2004, two museums have been opened in the western wing of the palace - the National Museum of Modern Art and the Museum of Totalitarianism of Socialist Realism.

The western wing previously served as the personal apartments of the Ceausescu family, where the bathroom alone occupied more than 200 square meters, the boudoir - three times more. For the opening of the museum, a significant amount of work was done to adapt these premises to exhibition spaces. Currently, the museum occupies several floors, where works of contemporary Romanian painters are presented and exhibitions of foreign artists are held. In addition to paintings and graphics, installations, video art and other exhibits representing a variety of types of contemporary art are on display. By world museum standards, the collection is still not large, but for Romanian art, which for many still remains a "blank spot"

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