THE NATIONAL

ART MUSEUM
OF MOLDOVA
A presentation with general
information about this awesome
museum
 GENERAL INFORMATION
1. The National Museum of Fine Arts (Romanian: Muzeul Național de Artă) is a museum in 
Chișinău, Moldova, founded in November 1939 by Alexandru Plămădeală and Auguste Baillayre
In 1939, the sculptor Alexandru Plămădeală selected some 160 works of Bassarabian and Romanian
 artists in order to set up the first Picture Gallery of Chișinău whose director was Auguste Baillayre,
painter and professor at Ecolle de Belle Arte of Chişinău. The first museum of Bassarabian fine art was
opened on November 26, 1939; its successor becomes National Art Museum of Moldova. In the first
days of World War II, the art pieces displayed in the Gallery, together with others donated by the 
Ministry of Culture and Cults of Romania were loaded into two lorries and delivered to Kharkiv; the
destiny of these collections remains unknown until present

2. Building
3. The building of the museum (architect Alexander Bernardazzi) is a monument in Moldova.[2] It
was previously known as Dadiani's female gymnasium.
“To be a human nowdays means to
fix the bad things happening
nowdays not to adapt or promote
them.

—ALEXANDRU
PLĂMĂDEALĂ
 THE NATIONAL ART
MUSEUM OF MOLDOVA

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