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 National Museum of Art of Romania and the National Art Museum of Moldova in Chișinău (MNAM) invite you to the opening of the exhibition "A Century of Bessarabian Painting: One hundred works from the MNAM collection," which will take place on Wednesday, March 27, 2024, at 15:00, on the occasion of the anniversary of the Union of Bessarabia with Romania (March 27, 1918), at the ground floor of the National Gallery (49-53 Calea Victoriei). The event is organized in partnership with the Romanian Cultural Institute.

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.