Muzeul Național de Artă al României | |
Established | 1948 |
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Location | Royal Palace, Bucharest, Romania |
Type | Art museum |
Accreditation | National Network of Museums of Romania |
Collection size | 70,000 |
Director | Roxana Theodorescu |
Owner | Ministry of Culture of Romania |
Public transit access | RATB, Bucharest Metro |
The National Museum of Art of Romania (Romanian: Muzeul Național de Artă al României) is located in the Royal Palace in Revolution Square, central Bucharest.[1] It features collections of medieval and modern Romanian art, as well as the international collection assembled by the Romanian royal family.
The exhibition "Shadows and Light" ran from 15 July to 2 October 2005. With four centuries of French art, it was the largest exhibition of French painting in Central and Eastern Europe since 1945.[2] 77 works were exhibited, including masterpieces by painters such as Poussin, Chardin, Ingres, David, Delacroix, Corot, Cézanne, Matisse, Picasso, and Braque.