The National Museum of the Romanian Peasant is part of the European family of Museums of Arts and Popular Traditions. It is a national museum, under the tutelage of the Ministry of Culture and National Identity. The owner of particularly rich collections of objects, housed in a historical monument building, in neo-Romanian style, practices a very special museography. The original style of exhibition is also extended in the museum's publications, in events such as openings, concerts, conferences and film screenings.

The National Museum of the Romanian Peasant considers it useful to maintain a discussion on the image of the peasant and his universe. The museum is in search of a generic "peasant", a complex person who can only be known through successive glances, each of which assumes a fragmentary perspective. The museography appropriate to this option can only be a museography of search, a “flickering” museography, which is reborn with every gesture, opposing everything that risks becoming routine, procedure, cliché, recipe. The Peasant Museum tries to create a fresh museography, free from museum clichés and fashions, simple, supple and discreet, in which respect for peasant objects and for the nobility of the world from which they come prevails.

We rediscover a forgotten world, we show its beauty, simplicity and power, in a modern and original museographic formula for which, in 1996, the Romanian Peasant Museum received the European Museum of the Year Award (EMYA), being, to this day, the only museum in Romania to enjoy this distinction.

Collections
The pieces in the museum's heritage, numbering over 71,000, constitute the richest collection of traditional culture in Romania, structured in the collections: Ceramics (14,000 pieces), Folk Costume (20,000 pieces), Interior Fabrics (10,000 objects), Wood, Furniture, Ironwork (8,000 objects), Customs (7,000 exhibits), Samples (6,000 objects), Religious Exhibits (4,000 pieces, to which are added the six wooden churches preserved in situ or presented in the exhibition), Foreign Countries (4,000 exhibits from international exchanges).
The museum has fully recovered its collections and acquired, after 1990, countless new pieces, including six churches from Arad and Hunedoara counties (two are kept at the museum and the others are preserved in situ).

The museum also has a rich specialized documentary archive. The Ethnological Archive of the Peasant Museum brings together over 80,000 original objects, organized in image funds (Clișoteca, Diatecă, Fototecă, Videotecă, Grafoteca), Audiotecă, ethnographic research files, mixed texts and “unconventional writings”, dating from the second half of the 19th century to the present. These document both rural and urban life. The archive represents a socio-cultural route through the history of local photography, but also an x-ray of the research and cultural action projects implemented by the Museum in the last two decades. Currently, part of the funds and collections in the archive are available online on the Rețele Privirii platform and on the Facebook page Arhiva de Imagine MȚR.

The permanent exhibition halls are currently closed, following the completion of the consolidation and restoration works of the historical monument building on Kiseleff Road. The museum has begun the reorganization and reassembly of the permanent exhibition.
The temporary exhibition halls remain open: Irina Nicolau Hall and Acvariu Hall.

Publications
At the museum's Martor Publishing House, we publish books, catalogs, notebooks, leaflets, illustrated postcards and the annual anthropology magazine "Martor".
The "Ethnophonie" collection has so far released 25 CDs with village and city music of Romanians, as well as Hungarians, Roma, Jews, Ukrainians and Aromanians. "Ethnophonie" is a high-quality collection, rewarded with Western distinctions: the Charles Cros Academy Award - France (2005) and the German Record Critics Award (2007).

Because we want a living museum, we have gathered several “cultural touches” in the museum, creating places and opportunities for people to meet people and culture:

Peasant Art Gallery – exhibition with sale of peasant art objects.

The creativity workshop of the M.N.Ț.R. invites, throughout the school year, kindergartens, schools, high schools, non-profit organizations to: drawing, painting, textile collage and embroidery, DIY stories, shadow theater, tailoring and weaving, glass painting, clay and wax modeling, handmade paper workshops and many other games and toys.
The Peasant Museum Cinema – a cinema hall with a capacity of 300 seats, focused on high-quality European documentary and feature films.

Why support the National Museum of the Romanian Peasant?
A tailored partnership
By becoming a supporter of the National Museum of the Romanian Peasant, you will be able to associate your company's image with a prestigious national and international cultural institution.
The Peasant Museum is rated with three stars in the 2019 Michelin Guide, being in the top three best museums in Romania.
By becoming our partners, we will be able to build together a project that meets both our needs and your company's values.

Meaningful communication
If you associate your company's name with one or more of the Museum's events, you will benefit from high visibility on our communication materials: display campaigns, brochures, catalogs, invitations, press releases, website, social networks, etc.

Privileged access
If you support our activities, you will be able to invite your clients and collaborators to exceptional events benefiting from personalized guides and visits.

How can you help us?
Temporary exhibitions
By becoming our supporters in a temporary exhibition, you will be able to benefit from special visibility and will have the opportunity to organize private events or sampling within a prominent cultural event closely related to the values, image and social responsibility policy of your company.

Purchasing an object for the Museum's collection and/or restoring an object already in the collection

Beyond the fact that you will be able to contribute to the enrichment of the national heritage, you will have the opportunity to purchase an ethnological object / a traditional work of art, on behalf of the National Museum of the Romanian Peasant, or you will be able to contribute financially to the restoration of an object already in our collection.

This will allow the fulfillment of one of the museum's objectives, which is to collect, preserve, conserve and exhibit various artifacts.

Museum education
Supporting the museum in its social and pedagogical mission means allowing it to develop an offer for a diverse audience: children, young people, pensioners, disadvantaged audiences, etc.

Conferences, creativity workshops, thematic visits, film screenings, family activities organized around an exhibition, mobile phone applications – all of these can make traditional Romanian culture accessible to a large audience.

You can thus choose to associate yourself with our cultural actions in general or through specific projects, around an event.

For more information:
Iuliana Bălan

Marketing-Public Relations: 021.317.96.60 / 0721.243.548

info@mntr.ro