Bucharest In Your Pocket - National Art Museum (MNAR; Muzeul National de Arta)

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The country's largest, and most impressive art collection is housed inside the splendid former Royal Palace, first built in 1812 as a private home by the wealthy trader Dinucu Golescu. When his sons fell into financial ruin some years later, they were forced to sell the building to the state, which carried out huge modifications, adding a number of new wings. It became a royal residence in 1859, when it became the sight of the court of the first prince of the united principalities, Alexandru Ion Cuza. Although slightly remodelled in the 1930s, the building we see today is more or less the original, revolutionary damage notwithstanding. Indeed, some parts of the building have only recently been reopened after the mindless vandalism of those mad days in December 1989, when the building was ransacked by the iconoclastic mob, which saw the building (named the Palace of the Socialist Republic during the communist period) as a symbol of the regime.
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[bbphnix]

what the hell does "one of the few museums worth spending your time in" mean!?!?! What the hell, man? Bucharest's museums are all fine to visit, there's nothing wrong with them;

[elmalasorte]

asasasa

[calin62002]

Diuliu Marcu was an Arhitect, but he has nothing to do with the Palace. under Carol I. was the Palace build... for him, he didn't buy it !