BUCHAREST CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM

WHERE IS THE CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM BUCHAREST

Where is the Contemporary Art Museum in Bucharest By: BUCHAREST-TRAVEL.COM

Photographed In: Bucharest, Romania, Contemporary Art Museum
Date Uploaded:2019-7-27
Description: Contemporary Art Museum is a quite recent institution and you can find it right in the middle of Bucharest at the Parliament
 
      The Contemporary Art Museum in Bucharest is just near Unirii or Unification Square which is in the middle of the Romanian capital. It is housed by the Palace of Parliament, where most of the tourists come daily. The official address is Izvor Street, No. 2-4, E4 sector of the Palace of Parliament and it is good to know that you can enter from 13 September avenue, the Gate B3. It looks like a little complicated but it is not. For example if you are on the other side of the building, it will take you about 20 minutes to walk around the Parliament and get to the gate. 

HEADQUARTERS CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM BUCHAREST

Headquarters of the Contemporary Art Museum in Bucharest Romania By: BUCHAREST-TRAVEL.COM

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Description: The headquarters of the Contemporary Art Museum in Bucharest is located on a part of the House of Parliament which is the main travel attraction in the Romanian capital

THE PALACE OF PARLIAMENT AND THE CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM

The Headquarters of the Contemporary Art Museum in Bucharest is inside the Palace of Parliament, the most visited building in Romania and the most hated building in the communist period. The museum is organized on four floors and, as you will notice, although it is not small at all, it is very, very small when comparing to the rest of the building. House of People or Palace of Parliament is a gigantic structure and was built to be seen from moon by Nicolae Ceausescu, the communist dictator who ended killed by his people during the Revolution in 1989. You can read more about it HERE! Or you can see where and how Ceausescu lived on our post dedicated to CEAUSESCU HOUSE IN BUCHAREST! Since the museum is part of this strategical, military building, the access is similar to the access in airports, so you will have to put your bag it the verification device. The police officer at the gate will guide you, anyway. 

ENTRANCE AT CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM BUCHAREST

Entrance and access to Contemporary Art Museum Bucharest By: BUCHAREST-TRAVEL.COM

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Date Uploaded:2019-7-27
Description: After you enter the garden of the Palace of Parliament you will walk for about 100 meters and see on your left the Great Cathedral and on your right the entrance to the Contemporary Art Museum

TICKETS AND VISITING HOURS

     We visited the Contemporary Art Museum in Bucharest on July, 20, 2019, a beautiful Saturday afternoon, of course, until it started to rain and blocked us in the pub at the 4th floor of the museum. We had no problem with that, on the contrary, though the prices for drinks are a little bit spicy. Anyway, after you enter the museum, you’ll have to buy the tickets and after that get to the security access gate. Mondays and Thursdays, the Contemporary Art Museum is closed all year. From April to November, it is open from 12 PM to 8 PM, while from November to April, during winter, it is open from 10 AM to 6 PM. Probably the best way to see the exhibitions here is when you come to visit the House Of People and most foreign tourists do that. 

TICKETS FOR CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM BUCHAREST

Tickets and fees to visit Contemporary Art Museum Bucharest By: BUCHAREST-TRAVEL.COM

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Date Uploaded:2019-7-27
Description: Inside the Art Museum you can leave your bag at the booking office where you will buy your tickets and pay the fee if you need to make professional photography
 
For adults the ticket is 16 RON, the tax for a guided tour for groups is 30 RON per person and if you want to take photos( without blitz), you need to pay 15 RON. For professional photography, the tax is 300 RON per hour, the same for making videos inside. 

WHAT TO SEE AT CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM BUCHAREST

What to see at the Contemporary Art Museum Bucharest By: BUCHAREST-TRAVEL.COM

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Description: The Contemporary Art Museum is organized on three floors and you can use the elevator outside the building to reach each one
 

EXHIBITIONS AT CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM BUCHAREST

The Contemporary Art Museum in Bucharest houses a great collection called Seeing the history from 1947 to 2007, which is an exhibition about the communist period, the progress of the Eastern European civilization, about the life of people in this period, including the Romanian Revolution in 1989 and the process of modernization of the country after the communists and the integration in the Euro-Atlantic civilization. Of course, the most important pieces of the collection are the art masterpieces exhibited, but the social, political and economical contexts are also explained on the first floor of the museum. There are also events organized here, like the recent one called The art condition in Russia and Eastern Europe in postmodern society, by an art historian Yunnia Yang from Taiwan. An impressive collection of photos made after masterpieces signed by great artists is also housed by the Museum. We are talking about 3 millions of copies in a digital archive. 

INSIDE CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM

Inside Contemporary Art Museum Bucharest By: BUCHAREST-TRAVEL.COM

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Date Uploaded:2019-7-27
Description: At the Contemporary Art Museum in Bucharest there are usually temporary exhibitions dedicated to different themes like the history of communism or artistic styles

EXHIBITIONS AT MNAC BUCHAREST

Exhibitions at Contemporary Art Museum Bucharest By: BUCHAREST-TRAVEL.COM

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Description: This is a beautiful exhibition called Gnomonica by Raphael Zarka and is a mix of paintings and sculptures
 
The museum also houses art workshops for children, teenagers and adults for a better understanding of the contemporary art and on demand learning tours with specialized guides. And if you have time and are interested in the recent past history of art, there is also a center for study, open every day from Monday to Friday, from 12 PM to 6 PM. 
This is a reason for we advise you to visit the Contemporary Art Museum on Saturday or Sunday in order to avoid other events housed in the building. As I said, we visited the Museum on a Saturday and here are some of the pieces of art which caught my attention. And pay attention, if you want to use your camera, you need to pay those 15 RON. You can use your phone camera for free, of course. 

BAIAS WORK MNAC BUCHAREST

Baias works at Contemporary Art Museum Bucharest By: BUCHAREST-TRAVEL.COM

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Date Uploaded:2019-7-27
Description: At the Contemporary Art Museum you can see a painting made by Silviu Baias in 1988 which is called Triptyque Reportage

DATA ROOM CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM BUCHAREST

Data Room art work at contemporary art museum bucharest By: BUCHAREST-TRAVEL.COM

Photographed In: Bucharest, Romania, Contemporary Art Museum
Date Uploaded:2019-7-27
Description: This is a digital print on aluminum made by Calin Dan and Iosif Kiraly donated by subReal and it is exposed at the Contemporary Art Museum in Bucharest

COMMUNISM CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM BUCHAREST

Communism and the victory of socialism sculpture Contemporary Art Museum Bucharest By: BUCHAREST-TRAVEL.COM

Photographed In: Bucharest, Romania, Contemporary Art Museum
Date Uploaded:2019-7-27
Description: This work belongs to Constantin Baraschi an artist born in 1902 and who died in 1966 and is called the Victory of socialism being made of plaster and as you can see on the wall behind is carefully watched by a portrait of Lenin

ENDLESS SHORELINE MNAC BUCHAREST

Endless shoreline By: BUCHAREST-TRAVEL.COM

Photographed In: Bucharest, Romania, Contemporary Art Museum
Date Uploaded:2019-7-27
Description: Florin Niculiu was a Romanian painter who lived from 1928 to 1997 and whose pieces of art are very beautiful and yet not famous like this one called The vast endless shoreline

MODERN COMPOSITIONS

Ion Alin Gheorghiu was an interesting painter By: BUCHAREST-TRAVEL.COM

Photographed In: Bucharest, Romania, Contemporary Art Museum
Date Uploaded:2019-7-27
Description: Ion Alin Gheorghiu was an interesting painter who lived from 1928 to 2001 and won a lot of international distinctions for his paintings like these three which are called Compositions and were made from 1993 to 1995 being oil on canvas

SCULPTURE AT CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM

This is a fine sculpture of one the famous Romanian artists in the 20th century, Ion Iancut and is called Two people By: BUCHAREST-TRAVEL.COM

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Date Uploaded:2019-7-27
Description: This is a fine sculpture of one the famous Romanian artists in the 20th century, Ion Iancut and is called Two people being made in 1987

VASARELY PAINTING CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM

This painting is called Tlinko and was made by Victor Vasarely who is the inventor of optical art in 1955 By: BUCHAREST-TRAVEL.COM

Photographed In: Bucharest, Romania, Contemporary Art Museum
Date Uploaded:2019-7-27
Description: This painting is called Tlinko and was made by Victor Vasarely who is the inventor of optical art in 1955

WORK AT MNAC BUCHAREST

This is a work of Cristian Rusu Ghost Geometry in situ intervention from 2016 By: BUCHAREST-TRAVEL.COM

Photographed In: Bucharest, Romania, Contemporary Art Museum
Date Uploaded:2019-7-27
Description: This is a work of Cristian Rusu Ghost Geometry in situ intervention from 2016
 

SHORT HISTORY OF THE CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM BUCHAREST

Contemporary Art Museum in Bucharest was founded in 2001 and was moved at the Palace of Parliament in 2004. Every spring and autumn, the institution would house events dedicated to contemporary art, new artists and cultural styles. The museum also has more than 30,000 works from 1920 to nowadays, promotes Romanian and international artists and festivals. After our visit inside the museum, we found a few minutes of peace at the pub on the top. We paid for a bottle of water and a bottle of beer 26 RON, which means about 6 Euros. In the OLD CITY the prices are rather the same. 

PUB AT CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM

Pub on the House of People at Contemporary Art Museum By: BUCHAREST-TRAVEL.COM

Photographed In: Bucharest, Romania, Contemporary Art Museum
Date Uploaded:2019-7-27
Description: At the fourth floor of the Contemporary Art Museum there is a small pub where you can have a coffee or a beer after you have visited the exhibitions
 
From the terrace of the Contemporary Art Museum you can see the Cathedral Of People Salvation, another huge building just like the House of People. Don’t forget, for other museums, you can chose THE ART MUSEUM, but you need a few hours to visit it, THE MUSEUM OF ART COLLECTIONS, also very interesting, or you can go to ANTIPA NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM.

VIEW FROM MNAC BUCHAREST

View from Contemporary Art Museum the Cathedral of People Salvation Bucharest By: BUCHAREST-TRAVEL.COM

Photographed In: Bucharest, Romania, Contemporary Art Museum
Date Uploaded:2019-7-27
Description: When you have finished your visit at the Contemporary Art Museum and you have a drink at the fourth floor you can see the view from the pub and you will surely notice the Great Cathedral which is being built just near the Palace of Parliament
 

GOOGLE MAP CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM BUCHAREST

 
 

 

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