Traveller in Romania – Museum Little Paris, Bucharest October 2023
I don’t know why I thought I know everything, but I definitely did not know this place even exists!
In Bucharest, relaxing, sitting at a terrace and having a refreshing juice, we noticed a sign across the alley. Museum Little Paris.
So, here we are, travellers, and me, a tourist in my own country, discovering other people passions and a fantastic museum.
The museum is exactly what it said – a Little Paris.
We know that in the period between the two World Wars, Bucharest was nicknamed Little Paris. The reason for this was the architecture of the buildings in that period as well as a certain sophistication of the people in Bucharest, anything from art and fashion to theatre. Elegance and beauty, novelty and grace.
It was not uncommon for Bucharest to copy European trends and during the centuries Bucharest was influenced by Byzantine, Ottoman and French cultures.
You can find these influences, as our guide explained to us, in everything from furniture, household objects, to fashion and jewellery.
This little museum started as a personal collection of a private person with a big passion for what once was an elegant era which was breathing through all its pores history, vintage, and glamour.
As the wars crossed over Europe and its Empires and Kings were changed, Bucharest was swept by ideas and influences.
So, we were ready to explore a new place, and what a delight it turned out to be!
In the big apartment, one of the rooms was furnished in the Ottoman style, and in the next one with a French influence. Then more rooms fully packed with thousands of objects tastefully dropped on furniture, shelves, hangers and small tables, from tea sets to toys and clothes: thousands upon thousands of objects from the interwar period.
The address of this Little Paris Museum is on 41 Lipscani Street in the Old Town of Bucharest. This is the name of the historical centre of Bucharest.
There was also a little shop with objects for sale, if you wanted to take a ‘piece’ of Little Paris home with you.
The place is just amazing!
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