22, Spătarului Street, Bucharest
Telephone: +4021 2114979
Open: Wednesday - Sunday
11.00 a.m. - 7.00 p.m. (May - September)
10.00 a.m. - 6.00 p.m. (October - April)
Closed: Monday, Tuesday, 1 January, Easter Day, the first and the second day of Pentecost, the 15th of August, 25 December
The Pallady Museum reopened after 6 months of building rehabilitation and restoration of the works of art. The museum holds the collection of Serafina and Gheorghe Raut, in which can be found some remarkable paintings by Theodor Pallady, as well as over 800 drawings and engravings belonging to the great painter, illustrative of his Parisian period. These are displayed in thematic series in temporary exhibitions.
Gheorghe Răut, director of the Parisian branch of Marmorosch Blank Bank, and a well-known art collector was a good friend and admirer of Theodor Pallady, whom he hosted in his own house in Place Dauphine nr.12. After the artist’s return in Romania, Răut preserved the paintings and drawings of Pallady in his Parisian workshop and donated them at the end of the 60’s to the Romanian state, together with his personal art collection.
Along with Pallady’s works, the art collection belonging to Raut family illustrates European paintings dating from the 16th to the 19th century (French - Lubin Baugin, Edmond Aman Jean, Carolus Duran, Netherlands - Jan van de Capelle, English, Spanish, Romanian), ancient Greco-Roman, Egyptian and Indian sculptures; Renaissance Italian and French sculpture, textiles, furniture pieces, Oriental ceramics and other decorative objects leading to a complex and unusual overview. By its diversity, the collection completes in a meaningful way the perspective of the Romanian and European art collecting practice in the late 19th century and the early 20th century.
Also known as the Melik House, the building which hosts the museum is one of the oldest and most beautiful houses in Bucharest. Built in the late 18th century, the house illustrates the traditional Romanian civil architecture by its porch, bordered with windows, the wooden staircase or the original roof with wide eaves. The house is named after its most important owner, Iacob Melk, a supporter of the revolutionary events in 1848 and the author of the work „L’Orient devant L’Occident”. He has initiated the renovation of the house in the late 19th century, guarding its original style.
Along with the reopening of the Pallady Museum, the programme „The Saturday school” will also be reopened for the public, consisting in weekly courses of plastic art training for preschool children and primary education students. Through these programmes, the museum aims for each child to develop his imagination and creativity and to become familiar with the museum world.