The Romanian Folk Art Museum is celebrating its 28th Anniversary The Romanian-American League is celebrating its 16th Anniversary Current exhibit : Romanian Easter Eggs |
The largest European folkloric, village artifacts collection in the U.S. features costumes, rugs, pottery, furniture, and a full Transylvanian interior. It has a Resource center on Romania and the Romanian immigration. In 28 years it organized more than 120 itinerant exhibits and activities in 10 states and it reiceved a lot of media coverage. It also functions as a cultural and economic bridge with Romania. A gift gallery offers for sale contemporary folk art, decorative arts, and rugs, but lately has been mostly closed due to lack of volunteers.. As the museum is not yet standing on its own foot, Romania is not helping, and the main founders/donors can not continue keeping the museum open without more support and other people getting involved in various ways. There is need for a campaign to save it , find a larger place and better solutions for its future. |
| The Romanian Folk Art Museum is a non-profit organization established in 1983 in Chicago by Rodica and Michael Perciali along with the help of a few American and Romanian friends. Its starting mission was to preserve and promote Romanian folk culture, but gradually it has expanded into a reseacrh center on the history of the Romanian immigration, a common ground for the Romanian-American comunities in Chicago and resource center about Romania as well as a cultural-economic promotional center for Romania.In the last 20 years it focused on promoting 500 hundreds Romanian artisans and, along with the Romanian-American League, opened in 1999 a new location in Philadelphia with a gallery and a showroom functioning as a bridge with Romania, developing cultural, educational, and economic promotion projects in US and in Romania, including a location in Brasov-Transylvania. |
| BECOME A FRIEND OF ROMANIA! SUPPORT WORLD CULTURE ! More then at any time in its accomplished history, the museum needs your support, participation and contributions! Become a volunteer or a member ($50 for newcomers, $25 for students), help popularize the museum and its programs, help with our its projects and activities or by creating new exhibits and some documentaries. Help maintain the valuable, autentic, impressive hand made collections for future generations. For more ways to help, see our Volunteer/Internships page and contact us ASAP, as for this fall we intend to develop a strong, complex campaign to save the museum |
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1606 Spruce St.
Philadelphia, PA 19103
215/732-6780
office@romanianculture.us
ro_am_league@yahoo.com
Philadelphia, PA 19103
215/732-6780
office@romanianculture.us
ro_am_league@yahoo.com
A Transylvanian village interior as part
of a large exhibit mounted in 1986 by
the Percialy family at Dittmar Gallery of
Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill.
For 16 years the museum was housed
in their home, but still visited by many
people, received 3 grants and huge
coverage by major Chicago media
of a large exhibit mounted in 1986 by
the Percialy family at Dittmar Gallery of
Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill.
For 16 years the museum was housed
in their home, but still visited by many
people, received 3 grants and huge
coverage by major Chicago media