Museum of the Romanian Peasant
The Muzeul Taranului Român ( Museum of the Romanian Peasant ) is a museum in Bucharest, containing a collection of textiles, mostly costumes, icons, ceramics, and other artifacts of rural life in Romania. The museum is one of Europe's leading museums in the area of folk art and in 1996 was voted " European Museum of the Year".
The museum is under the Romanian Ministry of Culture and is located on Kisselef Chaussée, near Piata Victoriei the. Its collection contains more than 100,000 objects.
The building features traditional Romanian architecture and was built on the site of the former state - minting Institute ( Monetaria Statului ). The museum was founded in the 1930s and initially led by Alexandru Tzigara - Samurcaş. On February 5, 1990, just six weeks after the event and the shooting of Nicolae Ceauşescu, it was reopened. During the communist period, a museum of the Romanian Communist Party was in the building, in the basement room is still set up showing some of the exhibits of this museum earlier in an ironic way. During the miners' uprising of June 1990, the museum was devastated, as it was considered the seat of the National Peasant Party.
One of the most famous exhibits of the museum is the original, designed by Tzigara - Samurcaş " house within a house ". The house belonged to the peasant Antonie Mogos from the village Ceauru in Gorj county. From the beginning, the house was shown in a non - naturalistic way: objects from the interior of the building were placed on different kind outside and the outbuildings were indicated only by fragments. The Ceauşescu regime showed the house in a conventional manner in the open-air Village Museum. In 2002 it was transferred back to the farm museum. The present preparation is carried out again in the non- naturalistic form. Visitors of the museum can for example look of a platform in the attic, the walls of which have been partially removed; where various objects are arranged.
2002 was the exhibition area of the museum by outsourcing the museum shop and the offices to be increased significantly in one located behind the museum building.