BUCHAREST CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM

Contemporary Art Museum Bucharest

BUCHAREST CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM

Bucharest has a vibrant cultural life. There are more than 40 museums you can visit in the Romanian capital. Concerts, exhibitions and all kind of social events are also part of the life of the city. Since we live in Bucharest, we try to attend most of them, but it is hard indeed. Anyway, if you are interested in Bucharest contemporary art, you need to visit the Bucharest contemporary art museum. It is inside the huge Palace of Parliament or House of People and near the People salvation cathedral. These are two gigantic buildings you cannot miss. The Bucharest Contemporary Art Museum houses all kind of exhibitions and it is open all year. 

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Description: Contemporary Art Museum is a quite recent institution and you can find it right in the middle of Bucharest at the Parliament
 

WHERE IS BUCHAREST CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM      

The Contemporary Art Museum in Bucharest is just near Unirii or Unification Square which is in the middle of the Romanian capital. It is inside 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. It is good to know that you can enter from 13 September avenue, the Gate B3.  

HEADQUARTERS CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM BUCHAREST

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Description: The headquarters of the Contemporary Art Museum in Bucharest is 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.

He is the communist dictator who killed by his people during the Revolution in 1989. You can read more about it HERE!

PAY ATTENTION TO ACCESS INSIDE THE MUSEUM

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. 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

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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 FEELING THE PLACE

     We visited the Contemporary Art Museum in Bucharest on July, 20, 2019, a beautiful Saturday afternoon. This massive building is not friendly at all. We were lucky to be inside the museum when a heavy rainfall started. It 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.

TIMETABLE OF MNAC

Mondays and Thursdays, the Contemporary Art Museum is closed all year. Check on their website for news. From April to November, it is open from 12 PM to 8 PM. 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. 

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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 32RON, the tax for a guided tour for groups is 40 RON per person. 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. 

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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. It is an exhibition about the communist period, the progress of the Eastern European civilization, about the life of people in this period. It also includes the Romanian Revolution in 1989 and the process of modernization of the country after the communists. You can learn interesting things about the country integration in the Euro-Atlantic civilization. Of course, the most important pieces of the collection are the art masterpieces exhibited.

EVENTS AND TEMPORARY EXHIBITS

There are also events here. A recent one is 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 here. We are talking about 3 millions of copies in a digital archive. 

INSIDE CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM

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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

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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. There are also, 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. 

BEST TIME TO VISIT CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM

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. 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

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Description: At the Contemporary Art Museum you can see a painting made by Silviu Baias in 1988 which is called Triptyque Reportage

DATA ROOM

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Description: This is a digital print on aluminum made by Calin Dan and Iosif Kiraly 

COMMUNISM AND THE MUSEUM

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Description: This work belongs to Constantin Baraschi an artist born in 1902 and who died in 1966 and is called the Victory of socialism. 

ENDLESS SHORELINE MNAC BUCHAREST

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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

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Description: Ion Alin Gheorghiu was an interesting painter who lived from 1928 to 2001 and won a lot of international distinctions for his paintings. He made these three from 1993 to 1995
 

SCULPTURE AT CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM

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Description: This is a fine sculpture of one the famous Romanian artists in the 20th century, Ion Iancut. He called his work from 1987 Two People 

VASARELY PAINTING CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM

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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

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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 MUSEUM

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Description: At the fourth floor of the Bucharest 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 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

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Description: When you have finished your visit at the 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
 

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