The Nicolae Minovici Folk Art Museum (Muzeul de Artă Populară Nicolae Minovici) is an art museum located in a historic villa in the northern Băneasa district of Bucharest.
The house was designed in a Romanian Revival style by the architect Cristofi Cerchez, who also designed the headquarters of the Former Franco-Romanian Bank. The villa was constructed between 1906 and 1907 and as a retreat for Nicolae Minovici, an important Romanian scientist of the early 20th century.
The purpose of the villa changed quickly as it became a shelter for a collection of Romanian ethnographic art and so the first folk art museum in Bucharest was born as it opened its doors to the public in 1914. In 1936 the Municipality of Bucharest took over the museum.
The museum hosts a variety of Romanian folk art pieces from all over the country, including ceramics, icons, fabrics, wooden objects, and traditional musical instruments.
