The Gallery of Oriental Art brings together objects of great artistic and cultural value from Egypt, Greece, Bulgaria, Turkey, Syria, Dagestan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, India, China and Japan, selected from the most important and valuable heritage of Oriental and Far Eastern art in the country.

The exhibition was curated by a team from MNAR, including
Dr. Călin-Alexiu Stegerean, general director and coordinating curator,
Alina Petrescu, head of the Modern Romanian Art section,
Miruna Moraru, curator, and Monica Croitoru-Tonciu, curator.

The museum brings centre stage a core selection of paintings by Theodor Pallady. Together with over 800 prints and drawings from the artist’s Parisian years, these are part of the Serafina and Gheorghe Răut collection, donated to the Romanian state at the end of the 1960s. The collection also comprises French, Dutch, English and Spanish paintings, European furniture and sculpture and a host of various objets d’art which speak eloquently about the manner in which Romanian inter-war intellectuals tried to emulate general trends.