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Five manuscripts belonging to renowned Romanian-born philosophers Emil Cioran and Mircea Eliade, including "Aveux et anathemes", entered the Romanian state's patrimony through the exercise of the priority of purchase and negotiation right…

On Brancusi Day celebrated today, as February 19 marks Constantin Brancusi's birth date, his famous sculpture "Wisdom of the Earth", for which the state launched a national fundraising campaign to collect money to buy the sculpture back…

The patrimony items from the Peles Castle, that the Royal House rented to the Culture Ministry, risk to degrade themselves because of the condensation, considering that the castle is not heated after the heater had broken. The Culture…

Romanian Culture minister, Lucian Romascanu has announced on Thursday that negotiations for the purchase of Brancusi’s ‘Wisdom of the Earth’ sculpture would be resumed and that a new evaluation on the work would be done. “We resumed…

President Klaus Iohannis on Wednesday promulgated a law stipulating that 3 percent of the money collected from gambling will annually reach to the Culture Ministry for the historical monuments’ restoration. The President also promulgated a…

Culture Minister Vlad Alexandrescu officially declared open the national public fundraising campaign enabling the Romanian state to buy the famous Constantin Brancusi's "Wisdom of the Earth" sculpture. The minister announced he had been the…

The Culture Minister announced on Wednesday night that the owners of the “Wisdom of the Earth” sculpture by Constantin Brancusi have accepted the acquisition offer of EUR 11 million tabled by the Romanian Government’s negotiation committee.…

600 architectural monuments are in collapse or on the verge of collapse, the Culture Ministry announced. The Culture minister posted on Facebook that the ministry eyes to set up “an emergency fund for patrimony”. His statements comes after…

The Culture and Environment ministries stated on Friday that they have enlisted the mining cultural site of Roșia Montană on UNESCO world heritage list. “Roșia Montană was the most active mining centre in the Apuseni Mountains starting…

National History Museum, rejoining around 750,000 items from the most important archaeological discoveries and historical documents in the country, on Monday launched an international architecture contest, under the aegis of the…