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Visiting hours:
The National Museum of Art of Romania, the Theodor Pallady Museum and the K. H. Zambaccian Museum can be visited: Wednesday-Friday 10am-6pm
Saturday-Sunday 11am-7pm, Monday and Tuesday closed. Free entry on the first Wednesday of the month.
The Art Collections Museum: Monday, Tuesday and Friday, 10am-6pm, Saturday and Sunday 11am-7pm, closed Wednesday and Thursday. Free entry on the first Friday of the month.
Last entrance: 1 hour before closing for The National Museum of Art of Romania and the Art Collections Museum and 30 minutes for the Theodor Pallady Museum, the K. H. Zambaccian Museum and the temporary exhibitions.
For guided tours, please make a reservation at secretariat@art.museum.ro at least 7 days in advance.
Between 30 July and 1 August 2025, The Oriental Art Gallery and The European Decorative Art Gallery will be closed for the redevelopment of the exhibition space. We look forward to your visit starting with Saturday 2 August 2025, as a new selection of 90 woks will be displayed in The Oriental Art Gallery!
The National Museum of Art Romania will host an official state event tomorrow, July 16, 2025, and public access will be restricted throughout the entire day.
We will reopen on Thursday, July 17, 2025, and look forward to welcoming you during our regular visiting hours.We apologize for any inconvenience caused to those who had planned to visit us on Wednesday.

The National Museum of Art of Romania
Rembrandt – Haman before Esther
Artwork description
Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn and studio
(Leiden, 1606 - Amsterdam, 1669)
Oil on canvas
236 x 186 cm
Inv.8187/221
Artwork location
European Art Gallery, 2nd floor, room 8
Sign language video
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Haman before Esther illustrates a key episode in the history of the Jews during their Babilonian exile in the ‘Book of Esther’. Haman, vizier to King Artaxerxes of Persia, planned to kill all Jews to take over all their possessions. His plans were foiled by Esther, the Kings’s wife, herself a Jew. Purim, the greatest feast in the Mozaic calendar, celebrates the deliverance

The painting shows Haman kneeling before Esther and begging for forgiveness while the King points the sceptre towards him, thus sentencing him to death by hanging.

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