Curtea de Argeş City Museum

Name:
Curtea de Argeş City Museum
General profile:
Main profile:
History
Collection(s):

The buildings housing the museum departments are: the Princely Church, a monument of mediaeval architecture (the 14th c.), the premises of the History Department that is housed in a historic monument building, from 1897, originally the first hospital of the town, and Dumitru Norocea House, which represents a monument of the Argeş folk architecture, where in 1972 the permanent exhibition of the ethnography and folk art department was organized. The main exhibition presents history and archaeology collections from the Neolithic, Dacian, Roman and Byzantine finds, mediaeval pottery from the 16th - 18th centuries; Dacian, Roman, Byzantine coins, a Charles Robert and Louis of Anjou hoard; ...medals collections, Romanian plaques, and decorations (from the 19th - 20th centuries); In Dumitru Norocea House you can see ethnographyand art items: Argeş house interior, costumes, artefacts related to shepherding; Romanian art: bronze and tin decorative pots (from the 16th - 18th centuries). The museum collections of archaeology, decorative art, iconography and numismatics from 1924, were housed inside the Princely Church. Between 1969 and 1984 it was located in the building of the former city hall. In 1984 it moved into the current location, that was fit out for the permanent exhibition of the history department of the city of Curtea de Argeş. In 1972 in the house of the painter D. Norocea became the permanent exhibition of the ethnography and folk art department and a fine arts collection belonging to the painter.


County:
Argeş
Locality:
Curtea de Argeş
Address:
Strada Negru Vodă nr. 2
Postal code:
115300
Access:
Near St. Nicholas Church and the ruins of the mediaeval Princely Court
Time table:
daily 9 - 17:00
Phone :
0248.721.446; 0745.177.598
Fax:
0248.721.446
Administrative subordination:
Curtea de Argeş City Council
Importance:
Local
Founded:
1969
Historic Monument Building: Clădire monument istoric
AG-II-m-B-13656
Museum code:
7004700
Contact person:
Gabriel Moisescu
Accreditation:
O.M.C. nr. 2523/10.07.2015 Acreditare;
O.M.C. nr. 3712/16.11.2021 Acreditare temporară
O.M.C. nr. 3113/06.07.2022 Reacreditare
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Subordinate units.
No
order
Name County Locality Commune Address Department Map
1728 Argeş Royal Court and Church Mediaeval Ensemble Argeş Curtea de Argeş Strada Negru Vodă nr. 1 Artă religioasă Map it
1662 Dumitru Norocea House - Ethnography and Folk Art Department Argeş Curtea de Argeş Strada Victor Ştefănescu nr. 8 Etnografie Map it