MNAC – Muzeul Național de Artă Contemporană al României
Contemporary art museum in a palace wing, with glass elevators rising to a rooftop café terrace.
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This guide to the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Bucharest opens on the twenty-ninth of October two thousand four, in an overheated press room inside the Palace of the Parliament, as a prime minister explains what his new museum is for. It follows the artists who answered the giant building with cigarette packs, cardboard and a puzzle, and the critics who wanted no part of it. Best heard at the museum entrance, before riding the glass elevator up.
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