Familia Minovici şi primul muzeu bucureştean de artă populară

  • Subiect: Professor Dr. Nicolae Minovici ( 1868-1941) was a democratic scientist and a man who admired our folk traditions. In 1905 he built "Minovici villa" in which he arranged his fine folk art collection. He wanted to demonstrate to the townspeople the beauty and originality of Romanian folk art and show his attachment to the peasants at a time when peasant uprisings were cruelly repressed and public taste was completely deformed by cosmopolitanism. A busy doctor and an outstanding social worker - he founded the Ambulance Service, the First-Aid Hospital, a school for re-educating beggars, a home for the aged and gave lectures and wrote articles against the social scourges of his time. Professor Nicolae Minovici was a persevering and untiring collector of folk art. He lovingly arranged in his home this collection, including thousands of items from all parts of the country, which he donated to the state during his lifetime (1936), turning it into a museum in order to demonstrate the artistic skill of the Romanian peasants and thus educate the masses. The house, with its harmonious architecture, is a stylised version of the old cula (fortified house) of the mountain regions. On the first floor is a loggia built in the Brâncovenesc style, with five carved stone pillars and a square mediaeval tower supported by a buttress from the top of which a row of small crystal bells tinkle when there is a breeze. The exhibits, including fabrics, embroi-deries, national costumes, pottery, carved wood and old paintings are presented either as a part of interior or displayed singly.
  • Limba de redactare: română
  • Secţiunea: Istoria muzeografiei
  • Vezi publicația: Revista Muzeelor: RM
  • Editura: Centrul pentru Formare, Educare Permanentă şi Management în Domeniul Culturii
  • Loc publicare: Bucureşti
  • Anul publicaţiei: 2003
  • Referinţă bibliografică pentru nr. revistă: nr. în TOM: 1-2; anul 2003
  • Paginaţia: 103-119
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