The top-lit galleries
Complete white with light falling from above.
The northern district the communist party elite lived in, and still the most expensive part of Bucharest. Its streets are wide and shaded by large trees and its houses are 1930s and 1940s villas behind walls — a scene that looks nothing like the rest of the city. It holds **Ceaușescu's house**, the Primăverii Palace, visited with a ticket and advance booking, and among the most recommendable things in Bucharest: twenty-six rooms left furnished as they were in 1989, with gilded bathrooms and a mosaic swimming pool. This museum is minutes away, and the two make a half day.
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MARe is a private museum opened in 2018 in the quiet Primăverii district north of Bucharest, and among the most successful pieces of architecture built in the city in the past decade. The building is itself a reason to go: it is a block of dark brick almost without windows to the street, holding white galleries lit from above. The intention is that a visitor is cut off from the city entirely on entering. The collection concentrates on **Romanian art from 1965 to the present** — art made under communist censorship and then after its fall, the most interesting period in Romanian art and the least shown in the national museums. It was assembled as a private collection before the museum opened. **Small and comfortable** — an hour is enough — with a café and a terrace.
Complete white with light falling from above.
The period least shown in the national museums.
Bulevardul Primăverii 15, Bucharest