National Culture Day is celebrated on January 15, 2024 in Bucharest with concerts, tours, debates, exhibitions and visits to museums with free entry.

National Culture Day, a holiday initiated and proposed to the Romanian Parliament in 2010 by the Romanian Academy, was established as a holiday with national status on the anniversary of the poet Mihai Eminescu. Events dedicated to this celebration, which is held for the fourteenth time, are aimed at popularizing the values ​​of national culture in all communities inhabited by Romanians, both inside the country and abroad, News.ro notes.

National Culture Day 2024 – Program of events in Bucharest

This year marks the 174th anniversary of the birth of the poet who, according to Garabet Ibrailianu, became “an almost incomprehensible event in our literature” and “who created the entire language of Romanian poetry.”

Considered a genius of Romanian literature, Mihai Eminescu left behind an impressive corpus of literary works, distinguished by depth of thought, originality of expression and artistic sensitivity. In his work, Mihai Eminescu uniquely illustrated the beauty of the Romanian language, promoting cultural identity and national traditions.

In the context of this day, numerous events and artistic manifestations take place, from concerts and theater performances to exhibitions and conferences.

The Romanian Academy, in cooperation with the Academy of Sciences of Moldova, is organizing a joint festive session dedicated to the Day of National Culture on Monday. The event will be held simultaneously in the Hall of the Romanian Academy and in the Azure Hall of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova, in a hybrid format, starting at 11.00. The session will be opened by the speeches of two presidents of academic forums. Ioan-Aurel Pop and Acad. Ion Tiginianu.

The opening of the exhibition “Anton Pann – Povestea vorbei” followed by a concert by the “Anton Pann” Early Music Chamber Ensemble will take place in the “Theodor Pallady” hall at Calea Victoriei 125, starting at 1:00 p.m.

The National Museum of Romanian Literature offers from January 15 to 18 an attractive program of events dedicated to children, young people, in the premises at Strada Nicolae Creţulescu 8, Calea Griviţei 64-66, as well as in the MNLR Memorial Buildings. people and families, but also the general public.

MNLR awaits visitors with four exhibitions (modern books for children, painting, book illustration and photography); two interactive reading sessions for children (in partnership with the Kazka Association); conversation-workshop with illustrators of children’s books; reading Braille and sign language; a concert performed by the Boys’ Ensemble of the Radio Children’s Choir, master classes on comics, master classes on interpretation, coining words and museum-educational events, concerts, demonstrations of aikido, chess and fencing. For the general public, the MNR prepared public prose readings, concerts, literary debates, conferences on improvisation and jazz, as well as theatrical performances. On Monday, the main exhibition at Strada Nicolae Creţulescu 8 will be free to visit.

The National Theater “ILCaragiale” in Bucharest is open to visitors on the Day of Romanian Culture 2024

Bucharest National Opera celebrates National Culture Day on Monday at 18:00 with the premiere of George Enescu’s Oedipus staged by Stefano Poda and conducted by Tiberiu Soare.

The National Theater “ILCaragiale” in Bucharest will be open to the public all day on January 15. The TNB Museum, located in the basement of the Great Hall, will be open on the Day of Folk Culture from 12:00 to 18:00 with free entry for all visitors. A flag with a height of 38.5 meters will be installed on the tower of the stage of the National Theater.

Teatrul Nottara – Teatrul Nottara will host two events dedicated to the work of Mihai Eminescu. Throughout the day of January 15, a recording of the play “Luceafărul” by Mihai Eminescu, staged and scripted by Dejan Yankovic, will be available on the theater’s website.

From 12:00 p.m., the event “Only a Poet” will be held, addressed exclusively to students of the National College “Dimitrie Kantemir” and the National College “Ion Kreange”. 100 students will take part in an excursion to the Nottara Theater with the support of Adriana Moka and an Eminesian poetry event with actor Sherban Gomoi.

On Monday, “Ion Creangă” theater reopens the Great Hall on Amcei Square. The official event called “Theatre of Ion Creangă Stories” will take place at 18:00.

On January 15, National Culture Day, the National Art Museum of Romania will inaugurate the Gallery of European Decorative Arts, a unique permanent exhibition of the Romanian cultural landscape that offers public access to an impressive collection of approximately 400 pieces of tapestries and furniture. , decorative art from ceramics, glass and metal. The gallery of European decorative arts with an area of ​​more than 400 square meters consists of six halls.

On National Culture Day, the MNAR headquarters (Calea Victoriei 49-53) will be open from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., where the public will have the opportunity to visit the Gallery of European Decorative Arts, Historical Spaces, European Art Gallery and the National Gallery for free. Access to the Gallery of European Decorative Arts is via entrance A2, 3rd floor, Calea Victoriei 49-53, Wednesday to Sunday, 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

The National Museum “George Enescu” organizes the following events: “George Enescu during the Great War (1914-1918)” – Bucharest Mall Vitan (January 15 – 30), “George Enescu, propagandist of prodigies” at the Romanian Athenaeum, “History of a Masterpiece: Opera “Oedipus” by George Enescu at the Bucharest National Opera.

Day of Romanian Culture. Interactive exhibition “Romanians with stories” in the Hryhor Antipa Museum

On Monday, the Day of National Culture, the Grigore Antipa National Museum of Natural History offers a special visiting program, which includes the opening of the interactive exhibition “Romanians of History”, free workshops dedicated to children, as well as free admission for all visitors, as in the permanent exhibition museum, as well as in the temporary exhibition “Hidden Creatures”.

The National Art Museum in Timisoara will open its doors on Monday, Culture Day, after hours for the second cultural marathon as part of the exhibition “Brancusi: Romanian Sources and Universal Perspectives”. Visitors can book free tickets online.

The National Historical Museum of Romania presents the exhibition “Monuments of Ancient Culture and Romanian Literary Language from the Heritage of the Ministry of Education and Culture. Epigraphy, paleography, calligraphy, printing art and literary creativity”. The public will see for free the important heritage objects owned and preserved as museum exhibits – some of the oldest manuscripts, the Tetraevangelium, the first books printed in the Romanian language, outstanding literary works.

The Museum of Maps organizes the conference “Historical myopia. How we explain history through modern art. Sever Petrovich Popescu, artist, Ioana Marinescu, curator and museographer of the Museum of Maps, Smaranda Vultur, anthropologist, Maria Gabriela Groza, historian will speak during the conference. The discussion will be moderated by Christina Toma, manager of the Museum of Maps. The map museum can be visited for free every Monday from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

On Monday, from 19.00, the National Chamber Choir “Madrigal – Marin Constantin” will hold an extraordinary concert “About Culture” with the participation of actors Victoria Kočas, Claudio Istodor and Adrian Titieni. The event is a tribute to Romanian composers of all time and takes place in the Palace of the Patriarchate.

ARCUB – A concert inspired by Romanian folklore, performed by Corina Sirgi, will take place on Monday, starting at 19:00, in the Great Hall. Also, the exhibition “The Universe of Salvador Dali” has an extended program and will be open to visitors until midnight.

Art Safari celebrates the Day of National Culture and extends the exhibition program by one day. The public is invited to visit all six Art Safari Stars Edition exhibitions, with guided tours offered at 2:00 p.m., 4:00 p.m., 7:00 p.m., 8:00 p.m. Access by ticket. Tickets are available on the Art Safari platform.

Ceasianu-Racoviţă Palace – the complete series “Caietele Eminescu”, the bust of the poet by the sculptor Ion Jalea – presented to the public for the first time, a series of manuscripts (in particular with audio support and accompanied by a video surprise) of conferences held by the classicist and philosopher Petru Cretia, who was also one of the most outstanding eministologists of recent times, is one of the attractions of the Czesianu-Rakovice Palace, open every day with free access from 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. On National Culture Day, the Romanian Football Federation is organizing “National Culture”, a full series of T-shirts from the Euro 2024 collection featuring the names of important cultural figures.

The Romanian Cultural Institute celebrates the Day of National Culture with more than 30 events held both in the country and abroad. International audiences are invited to concerts, exhibitions, theater and ballet performances, plays and poetry recitals.

The Sutsu Palace – the city museum of Bucharest can be visited for free on Monday, the Day of Culture.

Special events are also organized by the Bucharest Metropolitan Library, where unique books and exhibits will be exhibited.

This year’s CREART exhibition program is opened by artist Arina Bikan’s personal exhibition “Ethnoimmersive”.