Communist Era Mosaic on Bucharest’s Peasant Museum rear façade

The large mosaic covering the entire rear wall of the Romanian Peasant Museum is a remarkable and unique in Bucharest work in the characteristic “proletkultist” (proletarian culture) style, rendering typical themes such as the glorification of the working class.
The mosaic creates a striking contrast with the old wooden church, which was put up after the recommissioning of museum according to its original purpose: the building, inaugurated in 1941 as the Romanian Peasant Museum, was used since 1952 as a Lenin-Stalin museum, and then as a History of Communism in Romania museum. A rear wing was added in the 1960s to the main body of the edifice. After the collapse of the communist regime in 1989, the collections of the ethnographic museum returned to their rightful place.

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Panorama of the large decorative proletkultist style mosaic covering the entire façade of the rear body of the Peasant Museum