The Anton Pann memorial house opened to the public in 2018, presents the life and work of the prominent cultural personality of the 19th century. The museum’s concept follows the principles of interactivity and connectivity, through various illustrations, installations and animations that keep his memory alive. While the house is divided into several rooms, the Music Hall comprises 23 handmade musical instruments that are representative of the 19th century.

The exhibition also includes an archive of sounds, scores, vocal and instrumental, secular and religious pieces composed by Anton Pann. Other objects that draw visitors’ attention are an old Guttenberg typewriter with movable letters and a metal frame, a zoetrope and a praxinoscope, the ancestors of modern cinema, which unfold into comics, one of the writer's works and create the optical illusion of movement.

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The National Museum of the Romanian Peasant is part of the European family of Folk Art and Craft Museums. It is under the patronage of the Romanian Ministry of National Culture and Identity and has an extremely rich collection of objects hosted in a historic building in neo-Romanian architecture. More than 71,000 pieces in the museum’s heritage constitute the richest collection of traditional culture in Romania. It includes pottery, folk costume, home furnishing textiles, wooden objects, furniture, ironware, dedicated pieces and religious objects. The museum also houses six wooden churches preserved in situ or on display in the exhibition.

With a mission to maintain a discussion on the peasant’s image and universe, the museum presents the profile of a generic 'peasant', a complex person who can be known only by successive views. Each view offers a different perspective on this traditional figure. Due to its original approach The National Museum of the Romanian Peasant received the European Museum of the Year Award (EMYA) in 1996.

The Romanian Peasant Museum

A glimpse into the life of the traditional man

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Inaugurated in 1906, the Dr. Nicolae Minovici Museum is the first museum of folk art in Bucharest. Functioning initially as a private institution, the museum was fully opened to the public in 1914 and donated to the city of Bucharest in 1936. Passionate about traditional Romanian artworks, Professor Dr. Nicolae Minovici was an internationally recognised scientist, who founded the first emergency hospital in Romania. The museum’s collection includes furniture and wooden items, pottery, old icons and decorated eggs, traditional costumes and fabrics, music instruments and various household objects.

It has over 4,000 authentic pieces from different ethnographic areas of Romania, collected by Dr. Nicolae Minovici between 1900 and 1940, and over 2,500 Romanian ceramic objects produced in pottery workshops that disappeared after 1950. The museum’s building is one of the first neo-Romanian constructions in Bucharest, built in 1905 by the architect Cristofi Cerchez at the doctor’s request. It was the first urban project in Bucharest designed to be a museum.

Dr. Nicolae Minovici Folk Art Museum

Born from the vision of a pioneer

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The Frederic Storck and Cecilia Cuțescu Storck Museum preserves the creations of an entire family of artists. Architect Alexandru Clavel built the house between 1911 and 1913 in Anglo-Flemish style, while Frederic Storck designed and placed the decorative elements on the building’s façade. Frederic Storck (1872-1942) was a sculptor and professor at the Bucharest School of Fine Arts. His wife, Cecilia Cuțescu Storck (1879-1969) was a painter and the first female professor in Europe teaching in an art academy. She taught painting and decorative arts at the Bucharest School of Fine Arts.

Their collection composes of sculptures in marble, bronze, wood and plaster moulds made by Frederic Storck, his father and brother (Karl and Carol Storck), as well as paintings, drawings in ink and charcoal, pastels, watercolours and gouache works. Additionally, there are a series of plates and bronze medals and other collectibles, such as ancient coins and icons. The museum’s creation is thanks to the donation made in 1951 by Cecilia Cuțescu Storck and the daughters of the two artists to the People’s Town Council.

The Frederic Storck and Cecilia Cuțescu Storck Museum

A fine arts collection in an Anglo-Flemish mansion

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The Piscu School Museum and Workshop was founded in the heart of an old pottery village, the only one near the Romanian capital, Bucharest, where traditional pottery is still produced. The museum functions as a cultural space, in which everything revolves around the memory of the old community of artisans from Piscu, as well as a space that promotes education through heritage. Its collection includes traditional pottery, fragments of old pews, multimedia content and vintage photos. The public is invited here to discover the history of the place and old ceramic objects, but also to experience the craft of pottery through open workshops.

Initiated in 2016 by the art historian Adriana Scripcariu and sculptor Virgil Scripcariu after 11 years of living and working in Piscu, the project of building a museum in the village has benefited from the support of numerous volunteers and partners, including locals, architects, entrepreneurs, students, local authorities, companies and other pottery communities. The Piscu School Museum and Workshop is among the winners of the European Heritage Awards / Europa Nostra Awards 2022, in the Education, Training and Skills section.

Piscu Pottery Museum

Spreading the heritage of traditional pottery

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Developed in partnership with Fondazione Cologni dei Mestieri d’Arte and made possible by the support of Cartier, Homo Faber in Città gives you a rare chance to visit over 70 artisan workshops. The project is developed in collaboration with Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Confartigianato Imprese Venezia, CNA Venezia, Consorzio Promovetro Murano, The Venice Glass Week and Venezia da Vivere.

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Although the Michelangelo Foundation researches the talents for its projects autonomously, collaboration with our ambassadors is fundamental. Over 120 associations, schools and institutions allow us to map the continents for craftsmanship and to have partners in each country who share our vision and goals. In addition, we have asked well-known personalities in the craft, design and art world to be our ambassadors in the cities where they live, so that their recommendations can offer a unique insight into craftsmanship in the major cities of Europe and beyond.

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All the artisans and small workshops featured in Homo Faber Guide have been carefully researched and selected. They are presented and narrated through a selection of images and an interview, which allows readers to immerse themselves in the universe of these makers who exemplify excellence in their individual fields or are promising talents of the future. Find masters and rising stars who share the same passion and determination, and whose workshops are ready to share their secrets with visitors.

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An expert artisan is an accomplished artisan who has been in activity for more than ten years. He or she may also be engaged in passing on their knowledge to the next generations, but they have been doing so for less than seven years. Beyond this, they will become a Master artisan.

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Homo Faber Guide is an online platform dedicated to craftsmanship that allows you to discover artisans and their masterpieces; explore museums, visit galleries and shops selling unique objects; enjoy experiences in cities across Europe and beyond.

Homo Faber Guide is a signature project developed by the Michelangelo Foundation for Creativity and Craftsmanship, an international non-profit organisation based in Geneva, Switzerland, which was set up in 2016 thanks to the intuition of Franco Cologni and Johann Rupert. The Michelangelo Foundation’s mission is to celebrate and preserve master craftsmanship, and for this reason it has created a map of the most significant representatives in this field, with the aim of connecting all its protagonists: artisans, designers, gallery owners, art curators, collectors and enthusiasts of high-quality handmade pieces.

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Are you an artisan, atelier or manufacturer? Would you like to be featured in Homo Faber Guide? The Michelangelo Foundation encourages self-assessment initiatives and is pleased to evaluate new members to appear on the Guide or in other projects. Thanks to the Master’s Touch Evaluation Tool, every artisan can send their application: register and access a questionnaire to see if you fulfill the 11 criteria for excellence that stand behind all the activities of the Michelangelo Foundation. If your answers reach the minimum requirement, your application will be brought to our attention; if, on the contrary, you should score below the minimum requirement, we will give you some points for improvement, in the hope that you may participate in future initiatives of the Michelangelo Foundation.

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A master artisan is an accomplished artisan who has been in activity for more than ten years, and who has also been engaged in passing on his or her expertise to the younger generations for more than seven years. This is in keeping with one of the key values of the Michelangelo Foundation: the transmission of knowledge in craftsmanship.

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Find museums handpicked for their links to contemporary craftsmanship and the exquisite collections they have on display. In each city, discover a museum of interest and organise your visit. From Italian museums displaying coral collections, glass pieces and ceramics to decorative art museums in Russia and Greece, marvel at the variety of museums exhibiting masterpieces, showcasing techniques and recounting histories.

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A rising star is an artisan who has been active for less than ten years, and who is capable of expressing his or her craft with competence, creativity and originality. Whether self-taught or trained, the rising star represents the future of craftsmanship, in creativity, concerns and approaches.

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The artisans featured in Homo Faber Guide have been selected through a meticulous assessment process based on the 11 criteria for excellence, identified by Alberto Cavalli, Executive Director of the Michelangelo Foundation, in the volume The Master’s Touch, written with researchers Giuditta Comerci and Giovanna Marchello. The members of the Michelangelo Foundation’s network who have been invited to participate in sourcing artisans for the Guide use an evaluation tool based on these criteria. In this way, they can identify the most suitable artisans to include in the project.

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