Open: Saturday -Wednesday
11.00 a.m. - 7.00 p.m. (May - September)
10.00 a.m. - 18.00 p.m. (October - April)
Closed: Thursday, Friday, 1 January, Easter Day, 25 December


Established in 1978, the Museum is housed in the former Romanit Palace, built around 1812 by boyar Constantin Facca. In the third decade of the nineteenth century Grigore Romanit, treasurer of Prince Grigore Ghica, bought the palace. In 1834 Prince Alexandru Ghica rented the building, which later was to house the Administrative Court of Wallachia. Following the Union o ... Read more f the Romanian Principalities in 1859, the palace became the property of the Ministry of Finance; under its administration, in 1884 two wings were added to the building which largely retained the original Neoclassical style.
The Museum presently displays 15 from the 42 private collections (with over 12,000 works in a wide range of media) donated to the Romanian State between 1927 – 2002.

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