Arges County Museum

The Arges County Museum is a government institution and traveler enchantment based in Pite?ti, Romania. Formally inaugurated in 1955, its miles based in an Nineties palace within the town middle. Topics of its everlasting reveals include history, ecology, people artwork and minerals. Additionally, a best arts gallery is positioned in the former city hall, even as three different sites somewhere else within the county also are administered with the aid of the museum.

The museum is based at forty four Armand Calinescu Street, within the former Arge? County Administrative Palace. The shape changed into constructed in 1898 to 1899 in step with the plans of architect Dimitrie Maimarolu, at the same time as Mihail Manolescu become prefect. The land formerly belonged to the Buliga skete, and the finances for production got here within the shape of a mortgage of 140,000 lei from a Bucharest bank, guaranteed by way of the Dimitrie Sturdza-led Liberal government. Done in an eclectic fashion, it suits inside the framework of French academicism. The plan is symmetric and U-fashioned, with a basement, ground floor and 2nd ground; the constructing forms an implementing presence inside the city middle.