The Museum of Recent Art (Muzeul de Artă Recentă) is a contemporary art museum in the Primăverii neighborhood of Bucharest.
History Of The Museum
The museum was founded in 2018 and is located in a modern building that was constructed on the site of a former villa from the interwar period. The villa used to be inhabited by Ana Pauker, one of the prominent leaders of the Communist Party. The new building is a unified monolithic structure made of dark-colored brick placed on top of a fully glazed space and is designed by the architect firm Youssef Tohme Architects & Associates.
Visiting The Museum
The museum has 5 levels and a total space of 1,200 square meters. The collection consists of over 1,000 works by 250 Romanian and international artists, and date from the post-communist era until now.
