Qualla: National Museum of Art of Romania https://qualla.com/national-museum-of-art-of-romania en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:31 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/x/f/s/national-museum-of-art-of-romania-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: National Museum of Art of Romania https://qualla.com/national-museum-of-art-of-romania National Museum of Art of Romania: Introduction https://qualla.com/national-museum-of-art-of-romania/ Photo credit rsandu, CC BY-SA 4.0. The bullet holes are still there if you know where to look. In December 1989, when the Romanian Revolution raged through Revolution Square, gunfire raked the Royal Palace, shattering windows and tearing through galleries that held some of Europe's finest paintings. The museum staff hid what they could. When the smoke cleared and Nicolae Ceausescu lay dead, the National Museum of Art of Romania began the long work of rebuilding itself, room by room, painting by painting, until it could open its doors again on a country that no longer existed.

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]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/x/f/s/national-museum-of-art-of-romania-wp/sxfs-national-museum-of-art-of-romania-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full National Museum of Art of Romania: The Palace Before the Republic https://qualla.com/national-museum-of-art-of-romania/ Photo credit rsandu, CC BY-SA 4.0. Long before it became a museum, this building was home to Romania's kings. The Royal Palace took its modern form by 1937, replacing earlier structures on the same site, and served as the residence of Carol I, Ferdinand, Carol II, and the boy-king Michael, who would be Romania's l...

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]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/x/f/s/national-museum-of-art-of-romania-wp/sxfs-national-museum-of-art-of-romania-the-palace-before-the-republic.mp3 0:06 2 full National Museum of Art of Romania: December 1989 https://qualla.com/national-museum-of-art-of-romania/ Photo credit Domenico Veneziano, Public domain. Revolution Square earned its name in front of these windows. On 21 December 1989, Ceausescu addressed a hostile crowd from the balcony of the Communist Party Central Committee building across the way. By the next day, he had fled by helicopter from its roof. In the chaos that fol...

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]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/x/f/s/national-museum-of-art-of-romania-wp/sxfs-national-museum-of-art-of-romania-december-1989.mp3 0:06 3 full National Museum of Art of Romania: The Salvaged Saints https://qualla.com/national-museum-of-art-of-romania/ Photo credit rsandu, CC BY-SA 4.0. The medieval collection that visitors see today exists because of an earlier act of rescue. During Ceausescu's systematization campaign of the 1980s, dozens of historic Bucharest churches and monasteries were demolished or buried inside concrete bunkers. Curators, sometimes worki...

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]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/x/f/s/national-museum-of-art-of-romania-wp/sxfs-national-museum-of-art-of-romania-the-salvaged-saints.mp3 0:06 4 full National Museum of Art of Romania: The Old Masters' Rooms https://qualla.com/national-museum-of-art-of-romania/ Photo credit Hans Memling, Public domain. The European Gallery is a quietly extraordinary collection for a city most travelers never associate with Western art. Antonello da Messina's small Crucifixion has the eerie precision that made the Sicilian master one of the great innovators of the early Renaissance. Jacopo Amigo...

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