The Palatul Creditului Funciar Rural in Bucharest is open on the weekends in June, as the first stop of the itinerant MuzA – the Museum of Architecture in Romania, a project initiated by the Romanian Order of Architects.
The building, which was closed for 17 years, consists of a historic body from 1875, designed by Paul Gottereau, conceived as an autonomous object, oriented towards a court of honor, and an extension completed by Paul Smărandescu in 1933, which reconnects the palace to the dynamics of the modern city. It had several destinations – from the headquarters of the Rural Land Credit, one of the important financial institutions of modern Romania, to the headquarters and library of the State Committee for Construction and Architecture (1952 – 1959), and between 1955 and 1998, the headquarters of the Center for Documentation in Construction, Architecture and Systematization – during this period a partial consolidation of the building was also done.
Access is now possible from Doamnei Street, and the two levels house MuzA and are divided into sections: plans for the city; fantasy after fantasy; images from the future; touch space; domestic worlds.
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