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Bucharest

	Bucharest - Museums: National Art Museum, The Old Princely Court, Cotroceni Palace, Museum of the Romanian Peasant, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Erected in ten years, between 1927 and 1837, after the Romanian's architect D.Niculescu drawings, the Royal Palace became in 1948, after the monarchy was abolished, the house of the Romanian National Art Museum.
		Museum of the Romanian Peasant (Muzeul Taranului Roman)
		The building of The Museum of the Romanian Peasant, placed in Victoriei Square, was built in almost 30 years, from 1912 until 1941.
	www.covinnus.com /bucharest/bucharest_museum.html (1353 words)

	Museum of the Romanian Peasant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Museum of the Romanian Peasant (Romanian: Muzeul Ţăranului Român) is a museum in Bucharest, Romania, with a collection of textiles (especially costumes), icons, ceramics, and other artifacts of Romanian peasant life.
		The museum was devastated during the June 1990 Mineriad, due to being confused with the headquarters of the National Peasants' Party.
		In 2002, the museum's exhibit space was greatly expanded as the museum store and offices moved into a new building behind the old one, freeing up a considerable amount of floor space in the museum proper.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Museum_of_the_Romanian_Peasant (407 words)

	Eurovision Song Contest Helsinki 2007 \| Junior 2006: what Bucharest has to offer
		The Museum of the Romanian Peasant was declared the European Museum of the Year in 1996, and displays a rich collection of textiles (especially costumes), icons, ceramics, and other artifacts of Romanian peasant life.
		The Museum of Romanian History is another important museum in Bucharest, containing a collection of artefacts detailing Romanian history and culture from the prehistoric times, Dacian era, medieval times and the modern era.
		Many Romanian rock bands of the 1970s and 1980s, such as Iris and Holograf, continue to be popular, particularly with the middle-aged, while since the 1990s there has been growth in the boy band and hip hop genres.
	www.esctoday.com /news/read/5356 (1502 words)

	Arts:Museums and Galleris
		Museum of the Augustins - sculptures dating from the Middle Ages to the beginning of the 20th century.
		Museum of the Southwest - includes museums dedicated to art, children, and a planetarium.
		Orlando Museum of Art - the museum's mission reflects the continued growth of Central Florida, ardent community support for the arts, and the OMA's role as a leading cultural institution in the region.
	www.somersethouse.com /MuseumsandGalleries.asp (2096 words)

	artnet.com Magazine Reviews - Romanian Folk Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		"Rites of Passage: Art and Religion in Romanian Life," July 30-Oct. 9, 2004, at the Gallery at the American Bible Society, 1865 Broadway, New York, N.Y. Amid the concrete, steel, and glass of Manhattan, it’s a little incongruous to discover a lively exhibition devoted to art by Romanian peasants.
		Colorful textiles, vigorous carvings, masks and extravagant mixed-media ritual dance objects are among the highlights in the exhibition of 150 folk art works at the Gallery of the American Bible Society, courtesy of the Museum of the Romanian Peasant in Bucharest.
		Traditional Romanian rituals, a mix of pagan, Eastern Orthodox and some western Christian influences, are particularly expressive at birth, marriage and death.
	www.artnet.com /Magazine/reviews/karlins/karlins8-23-04.asp (929 words)

	Passion Music mail-order Balkan CDs. Speranta Radulescu of Ethnophonie Records Romania interview part one (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In my opinion, the traditional peasant music should be helped to survive (at least for a while) by appreciating it, by promoting it as it is, in its genuine form.
		It is an unconventional Romanian institution, trying to see the traditional culture facts as they are, to understand what they meant, to discover the way of thinking that produced them.
		The museum shows the past, but also the present of the peasant Romanian culture - as 'ugly', uneven and mixed as it is/it became today.
	www.passiondiscs.co.uk /articles/s_radulescu_part_1.htm (2028 words)

	Museum of the Romanian Peasant - Romania-
		The Museum of the Romanian Peasant was founded in 1990 succeeding the Museum of Ethnography and Popular Art, abolished by the authorities in 1978.
		The museum's goal is to present rural people and their environment as they are now and were in the past, avoiding the idealized peasant clichés portrayed during the Communist regime.
		In 1996, the Museum of the Romanian Peasant was awarded the EMYA prize for the best European museum of the year.
	www.virtualmuseum.ca /Exhibitions/Instruments/Anglais/mpr_c_txt01_en.html (111 words)

	Places to Visit > Cities & Citadels > Bucharest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Bucharest (Romanian: Bucureşti) is the capital city and industrial and commercial centre of Romania, located in the southeast of the country, on the Dâmboviţa river.
		In 1858 the international congress for the organization of the Danubian principalities was held in the city; and when, in 1861, the union of Wallachia and Moldavia was proclaimed, Bucharest became the Romanian capital.
		Museum of the Romanian Peasant has a very notable store, offering artifacts such as textiles, musical instruments, and painted eggs.
	www.earomania.com /places_to_visit/cities_citadels/bucharest/bucharest.html (1728 words)

	TravelRomania Pictures -- The Museum of the Romanian Peasant, Bucharest (photo 1)
		The Museum of the Romanian Peasant (Muzeul Taranului Roman) received the European Museum of the Year Award in 1996.
		From textiles to wooden churches, the museum is about recreating the atmosphere and symbolism generated by and around objects, a universe which makes up so much of the image and life of the Romanian Peasant everywhere.
		The Museum has a history of over a century of collecting, dating back to a textile collection of 1875.
	members.tripod.com /travelromania/i_romaniapictures12a_1.htm (325 words)

	Wikinfo \| Bucharest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Bucharest (population 2.3 million, Romanian: Bucureşti) is the capital city and industrial and commercial centre of Romania, located in the southeast of the country, on the Dâmboviţa river.
		Established in 1936, the Village Museum is an open air ethnographical museum, extended on 10 hectares, containing 272 authentic buildings and peasant farms from all over Romania.
		The first Romanian higher education institution was opened in 1694 (the Academy of Saint Sava), and in 1864 the Bucharest University was established; today there are 21 higher education institutes with nearly 100,000 students in the capital.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Bucharest (1651 words)

	Bucharest travel guide - Wikitravel
		Village Museum –an original open air museum created in 1934, it currently has around 300 traditional buildings (including churches, workshops, mills etc.) plus furniture, pottery, clothing gathered from villages in every region of the country in an effort to showcase the traditional way of life of the Romanians.
		Museum of the Romanian Peasant –also dedicated to the traditional way of life, it focuses mainly on traditional interior decoration, tools, clothing and artifacts.
		Romanian police officers will almost never fine a pedestrian, but they almost always pull over foreign registered cars, to see if the drivers have all the papers ok. Bribing is very common, but generally it is not demanded directly.
	wikitravel.org /en/Bucharest (3056 words)

	The Romanian Jewish Community
		The answer is to be found in the international conference entitled "Minorities, cultural heritage, contemporary Romanian civilization", organized by the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs together with B'nai B'rith International and the Federation of the Jewish Communities in Romania (FJCR).
		Andrei Oisteanu analyzed, with his well-known preoccupation for imagery, "The Romanians' tolerance to minorities- between myth and reality", showing how this was reflected in literature and press in the recent history.
		Paul Shapiro, from the same museum, proved that one needn't be of Romanian origin and needn't live here in order to understand (and to present in the local language!) the evolution of the intellectual and cultural anti-Semitism that made the Holocaust possible in Romania.
	www.romanianjewish.org /en/index_fcer2_03.html (1293 words)

	Istria on the Internet - Endangered Languages - Istro-Romanian
		Links of anthropological value from that region are the humble wooden churches in Lunca Motilor (Hunedoara) and Troas (Arad) which are preserved "in situ" under the auspices of The Museum of the Romanian Peasant.
		Once thought to be a language that bridged the gap between the Romanian language and Italian, Dalmatian was only distantly related to the nearby Romanian dialects, such as the nearly extinct Istro-Romanian spoken in nearby Istria, Croatia.
		Vlachs (also called Wlachs, Wallachs, Olahs) are the Romanized population in Central and Eastern Europe, including Romanians, Aromanians, Istro-Romanians and Megleno-Romanians, but since the creation of the Romanian state, this term was mostly used for the Vlachs living south of the Danube river.
	www.istrianet.org /istria/linguistics/istrorumeno/intro.htm (1760 words)

	2004 TDF Prague Budapest includes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The historic center of the Romanian capital reflects the charm of the turn of the century, when Bucharest was renowned as the Paris of the East.
		Suddenly, peasant homes are decorated with bands of color reminiscent of folk embroidery, and roofs are edged in lace-like cut tin.
		The first museum in Romania, it began as the private collection of Samuel Brukenthal, Governor of Transylvania from 1778-1788.
	www.tdf.org /travel/transylvania_itin.html (1297 words)

	Virtual Library: Museums in Romania
		Museums and Collections in Romania - on-line national database (753 records and 800 images); searchable either by museum main profile or location (county, locality).
		Museum of Romanian Peasant, Bucharest, winner of European Museum of the Year 1996/
		The "Poni - Cernătescu" Museum in Iassy (in Romanian)
	icom.museum /vlmp/romania.html (432 words)

	Bucharest sightseeing tour including Cotroceni Palace, The Parliament House ..
		The Village Museum, located on the lakeside of Herastrau Lake, was established by the Romanian sociologist Dimitrie Gusti in the year 1936, being one of the first etnographical museums in the world.
		It was declared in 1996 the European Museum of the Year because of its special type of museology and of the original poetics developped in relation to the object.
		The museum is hosted by a historical monument building in new Romanian architectural style, recently renovated and which was formerly The Museum of the Communist Party.
	www.hotelnet.ro /bucharest-tours/seightseeing-tour.htm (401 words)

	ROMANIA - Arts and Architecture - Official Travel and Tourism Information
		Some are small museums, catering to enthusiasts with a taste for special interests such as pharmacy, clocks, railway trains, folk arts and architecture, wine making and traditional crafts.
		Prominent museums include Romania's National Museum of Art, the Art Collections Museum, the Village Museum, the Museum of the Romanian Peasant in Bucharest, and the Bruckenthal Museum in Sibiu.
		Romanians' vivid imagination and intense spirituality have always been expressed through their architecture.
	www.romaniatourism.com /spec.html (596 words)

	Romanian Museum: Folk Natioanl Ethnic Costumes; Port popular romanesc (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Romanian Old Fashioned Folk Costumes were entirely made at home: home spun wool, cotton, hemp, silk (from home grown silk worms) and flex (in Romanian "in").
		The Romanian Folk Costume main characteristics are: Predilection for white; Embroidery in geometric patterns; and Elaborate and highly symbolic headdresses.
		Nowadays, the Romanian folk costumes are generally limited to blouses, skirts, and aprons, perhaps vests for women; Shirts, pants, and sometimes vests or coats for man. The old style of elaborate and highly symbolic headdresses are totally disregarded.
	www.romanianmuseum.com.cob-web.org:8888 /Romania/aboutRomania.html (1122 words)

	Bucharest Museums
		The National Museum of Art, located in the former Royal Palace in the center of Bucharest, features notable collections of medieval and modern Romanian art, as well as the international collection assembled by the Romanian Royal Family.
		The Village Museum is an open-air ethnographic museum, the many different Romanian peasant homes, on display, incorporating the traditional Romanian village life.
		The museum, now, houses collections illustrating the history of music composition and documents from the life of the greatest Romanian musician George Enescu.
	www.deltatravel.ro /museums.php (749 words)

	Recent Events at Educational Advising Center - Fulbright \| United States Diplomatic Mission in Romania
		Romanian teenagers who visit our Center for counseling on admission to US study looked forward to meeting the US students and to sharing opinions on what it is like to be a high school student in the US and in Romania.
		The US students were traveling to Romania in their spring holiday and before coming to the Fulbright Center they had been on a tour of Bucharest and had also attended the Spring Fair at the Museum of the Romanian Peasant.
		In a very active discussion, the Romanian teenagers were eager to learn about the life, both academic and extracurricular, of American high school students, while American students wanted to find out why Romanians would like to study in the US.
	www.usembassy.ro /Fulbright/Events/re041406.html (347 words)

	A Museum in Danger! - Fundatia Anonimul
		Renewal", intended to draw the attention of the public opinion and authorities, on the destroy of the Romanian Peasant Museum.
		The rooms belonged to the exhibition located on the ground floor, for which the Romanian Peasant Museum received in 1996 the award "The European Museum of the Year".
		In spite of the protests of numerous intellectuals, the leadership of the Romanian Peasant Museum enforced its decision, by eliminating the rooms.
	www.anonimul.ro /mp_dv_pc_en (325 words)

	Romania, Countries, Museums, Visual Arts, Performing Arts at World Wide Arts Resources
		The Art Museums subcategories lead you to art museums, collections museum exhibitions, and archives around the world.
		The Museum of The Romanian Peasant is part of the large family of European Museums for Folk Arts and Traditions.
		The Museum of Traditional Folk Civilization "ASTRA" Sibiu is the most elaborate scientific-documentary and technical collection and archives (pictures, photos, films) dealing with pre-industrial folk technology in Romania (mills, sheep-fold, fishery, folk art: interior decoration of the...
	www.wwar.com /categories/Museums/Countries/Romania (137 words)

	Culture - Museums - The Romanian Peasant's Museum
		Alexandru Tzigara-Samurcas, an eminent art historian, was appointed director of this museum and it was owning to his efforts that this institution acquired soon a prestigious scientific and cultural statute.
		The edifice, which is an expression of the new Romanian style innspired from the old Brancovan tradition, that favoured monastic precincts-like constructions, was finished only as late as in 1941, when it actually became the architectural monument that shelters the Romanian Paesant's Museum nowdays.
		This museum, which is very much like a real page of our national memory and biography, has carefully sheltered, just like the history book if this people did, both ancient and recent material aand spiritual evidence which stand proof to that "way of being" of the Romanians, unaltered since their ancestors' time.
	www.ici.ro /romania/en/cultura/mz_taranului.html (416 words)

	The Romanian Literature Museum in Iasi (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		As late as in 1914 the Romanian Academy enters into the possession of the house de facto and they name a custodian of the entire property.
		As late as in 1955 the building regained its status as a museum, and on the 9th of June 1957 it is inaugurated as a repository of cultural memory.
		In the courtyard of the memorial house there is the mausoleum raised by the Romanian Academy where the poet's coffin lies and the bones of his parents.
	www.cimec.ro.cob-web.org:8888 /Muzee/iasi/eng/alecsandri_eng.htm (462 words)

	Museums- Bucharest, Romania - VirtualTourist.com
		The aim of the museum is to provide a comprehensive view of Romanian art from the early Middle Ages to the present, in as broad a European context as possible.
		In the basement of the museum is the Communist Iconography Museum with paintings of Stalin, bust of Lenin and portraits of some dictator I don't recognize, perhaps Ceausescu's predecessor.
		In display are a lot of objects of the romanian culture such as wooden elements, pottery, costumes, textiles, and even an original wooden church.
	www.virtualtourist.com /travel/Europe/Romania/Municipiul_Bucuresti/Bucharest-520545/Things_To_Do-Bucharest-Museums-R-1.html (792 words)

	Nine O'Clock
		The history of The Museum of the Romanian Peasant covers almost a century of restlessness, bringing together times of international praising with moments of obstruction and anxiety related to the situation in the country.
		A director of this museum for more than 40 years, Alexandru Tzigara-Samurcas, succeeded, speaking from a cultural point of view, in bringing this museum and the Romanian ethnographic museum science, the founder of which he actually was, to the top level of European and world movement of ideas.
		The Peasant Museum is and will always be a memento, telling about that “way of being” proper to the Romanians, which they have inherited from their ancestors.
	www.nineoclock.ro /index.php?page=detalii&categorie=culture&id=20060206-502782 (438 words)

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