Art Museum of Timisoara

The Art Museum of Timisoara is an art museum located in the Baroque Palace in Timisoara. The museum was formed after the detachment of the Banat Museum's art section, which had been functioning for a while in a wing of the current building. The museum became a standalone institution on 1 January 2006, the director being Professor Marcel Tolcea. With the completion of a good portion of the palace restoration and exhibition space, the expanded museum was inaugurated on December 21^st . The museum includes a unique collection of works and personal objects of the painter Corneliu Baba, with 90 pieces. Three other sections include contemporary, decorative and European art collections.

In the museum's patrimony there are also collections of Romanian painting, Banat and religious painting, which are currently not exposed for lack of space. Ground floor is dedicated to temporary exhibitions. The contemporary art collection of the Timisoara Museum of Art was unequally composed from ious pieces gathered over time. Most of these pieces represent the different artistic directions of art in Timisoara. By 1960, Timisoara had become one of the most dynamic centres of Romanian contemporary art, due largely to the establishment in the city of a number of young artists, coming from studies and animated by the desire to change artistic life.