Tulcea Art Museum

The Tulcea Art Museum is an art museum located at 2 Grigore Antipa Street, Tulcea, Romania.

Tulcea Art Museum
Early 20th-century postcard

The building that houses the museum was erected between 1863 and 1865, under the Ottoman Empire, and was originally an administrative center, the palace of the Tulcea sanjak's pasha, headquarters of the mutasarrıfate and its nine kaza administrators. In 1860, Tulcea had become the capital of a sanjak including Northern Dobruja (minus the Danube Delta) and part of Southern Dobruja; the previous capital was at Babadag. It was during this period that the European Commission of the Danube was established and foreign consulates began to appear in Tulcea.[1]

Following the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878 and Romania's absorption of Northern Dobruja, the building retained its administrative function until 1970, hosting the prefecture, courthouse, prosecutor's office and, between 1950 and 1970 under the Communist regime, the raion and later county councils. It underwent a full restoration in 1893-1895, a partial one in 1941 following the 1940 Vrancea earthquake, and yet another one from 2009 to 2012.[1]

The art museum opened in 1982. Its seven collections include: modern and contemporary painting; modern and contemporary sculpture; 18th-, 19th- and 20th-century icons; modern and contemporary sketches; engraving plates; 18th- and 19th-century oriental art; and 18th-, 19th- and 20th-century decorative art.[2] The building is listed as a historic monument by Romania's Ministry of Culture and Religious Affairs.[3]

Notes
  1. (in Romanian) Palatul Paşei de Tulcea - Muzeul de Arta - Institutul de Cercetari Eco-Muzeale, at the Tulcea County Cultural Affairs Office site
  2. (in Romanian) Muzeul de Artă at the Gavrilă Simon Institute of Eco-Museum Research
  3. (in Romanian) Lista Monumentelor Istorice 2010: Județul Tulcea

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