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 peasantry living
The village inside the capital
The Village Museum (Muzeul Satului ) is one of
the largest outdoor museums of ethnography
in Europe (13.5 ha). In Herăstrău Park (Parcul
Herăstrău), presented by geographical area, you
can discover approximately over 350 structures
and 55,000 objects. Twice a year, the “The crafts-
men’s fair” takes place here. You can admire
the ethnographic richness of Romanians at the
Romanian Peasant Museum (Muzeul Ţăranului
Român), named the “European Museum of the
year, 1996” where over 60,000 pieces of folk art
from all over the country are collected.
village museum
www.muzeul-satului.ro
romanian peasant museum
www.muzeultaranuluiroman.ro

culture from past to pillar

The Great Brâncuși and the imposing Mammoth
There is a variety of museums you can visit in Bucharest: art, history,
ethnography, geology, technical, and military, of natural sciences or of
monuments. The largest is the National Art Museum, with its impres-
sive galleries of ancient and modern Romanian Art. Here you can see
Constantin Brâncuși’s sculpture “The Prayer” (Brâncuși is Romania’s most
internationally renowned plastic artist). A fabulous museum, but little
known, is that of the Storck family, the German, Karl Storck was the first
sculpture master of the “School of belle-arte” of Bucharest. The oldest
museum in Romania, just renovated, is the “Grigore Antipa” museum of
Natural history, where you can find the skeleton of a mammoth, 10 million
years old, a piece unique in the world.

national museum of art

www.mnar.arts.ro
museum of natural history “grigore antipa”
www.antipa.ro At the newly-renovated Antipas’ museum you can find a 10 million year-old mammoth.

The National Art Museum is situated in the former location of the Royal Palace.

6 – explore the carpathian garden