The Zambaccian Art Museum (Muzeul de Artă Zambaccian) is satelite branch of the National Museum of Art of Romania, and is located in the former house of Krikor Zambaccian in the Dorobanți neighborhood of Bucharest.
History Of The Zambaccian Art Museum
Krikor H. Zambaccian (1889-1962) was a businessman of Armenian descent and an art critic and collector. The Zambaccian House was specifically designed as both a residential house and an exhibition space by the architect C.D. Galin and completed in 1942. One day a week the house was open for the art-loving public.
Krikor Zambaccian later donated the house and his art collection to the state and in 1947, the house was officially opened as a museum. In 1956, the house was extended to increase the exhibition space.
In 1977, the communist regime closed the museum and moved the collection to the Museum of Art Collections, but in 1996 it was returned and the museum reopened. In 2008, the house was renovated and extended to further increase the exhibition space.
Museum Collection
The collection mainly consists of works by Romanian painters, including Nicolae Grigorescu, Vasile Popescu, Ștefan Luchian, and Ion Andreescu, and French painters, including Paul Cézanne, Pierre-Augustine Renoir, and Pierre Bonnard, but also has a few works by other painters including Pablo Picasso and Alfred Sisley.
Among the collection are also sculptures by artists including Constantin Brâncusi, Cornel Medrea , Milița Petrașcu , Dimitrie Paciurea and Frederic Storck.
