Permanent Galleries
The museum's permanent galleries include the National Gallery (Romanian medieval and modern art) and the European Art Gallery, hosted in the palace's side wings.
The European Art Gallery
The Gallery hosts Romania’s premier collection of European art. In time, the Picture Gallery of King Carol I was complemented with works from various the Ioan and Dr. Nicolae Kalinderu, Toma Stelian, Anastasie Simu, and Al. Saint-Georges collections alongside paintings from the Bucharest Municipal Picture Gallery. After 1950 the collection continued to grow through donations and acquisitions.
The European Decorative Art Gallery
Divided into six rooms, illustrates four centuries of the history of taste and refinement, of European innovations, manufactures and craftsmen from Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Switzerland, France, Germany, Italy, Holland, Spain, Russia of the 16th-19th centuries and completes the museum's permanent collections, together with the European Art Gallery and the National Gallery.
Romanian Medieval Art Gallery
Over 900 icons, mural paintings, embroideries, manuscripts, silverware, woodcarvings, many of them unique, amply survey Romanian art from the 14th – to the early 19th century. Items on display showcase developments in Moldavia, Wallachia and Transylvania, reflecting the intricate manner in which a traditional Byzantine layer blended in Oriental as well as Western influences to generate original local art forms.
Romanian Modern Art Gallery
The Romanian Modern Art Gallery tells the story of Romanian art from the mid-nineteenth to the late twentieth century. Representative works by Theodor Aman, Nicolae Grigorescu, Ioan Andreescu, Theodor Pallady among others, illustrate connections with contemporary French painting while those of M.H. Maxy, Marcel Ianco, Victor Brauner trace the contribution of Romanian art to the European avant-garde of the 1920s and 1930s. Early sculptures by Brancusi reveal the master’s will to break away from academic tradition and find a way of his own.
VIRTUAL GALLERY OF ORIENTAL ART. COLLECTION OF ISLAMIC ART
The collection of Islamic art at the National Museum of Art in Romania is the most significant of its kind in Romania, comprising approximately 1,400 pieces dating from the 7th to the 20th century.
The Gallery of Oriental Art
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.