Introducing the Gift Collections in the Gallery Store
This unique in US store features the highest quality contemporary
folk art outside of Romania: hundreds of beautiful contemporary
works of folk art from village artisans in Romania, including the
famous and sought-after trademarks of Romanian hand-woven
kilim rugs and smaller decorative pieces with floral or geometrical
designs; woven cotton textiles; exquisitely hand-embroidered
delicate Romanian blouses; traditional icons on glass or wood; a
large variety of blue and white ceramics from Transylvania,
including plates, jugs, candlesticks,  miniature items and the most
admired earth-tone pottery plates from Horezu-Oltenia;  wood
painted dowry chests from Transylvania and carved or etched
wooden jewelry boxes from Southern Romania; dolls in native
costumes and wood figurines; decorated eggs; and a limited
number of primitivist masks used for the village New Year folk
traditional  rituals. Also featured are works of decorative art such
as frozen glass or metal and glass hand blown vases made by
distinguished contemporary Romanian artists and shop artisans.  

New: Pine country furniture!
Dolls in native costumes of various
Romanian regions $20-45
Pottery from Transylvania, small pieces $5-10,
medium plates $16-20, large plates $22-26

This gallery is the only Romanian commercial space in the U.S. Even more importantly, it is part of an
multi-year nonprofit program of economic assistance to 500 artisans of Romania, therefore all the
proceeds are usedto continue the promotion of their work, the museum, and the Romanian folkloric culture
and production (that had a very good market in the US in the past but was lost due to the deep economic
crisis in Romania, lack of economic promotion efforts by the Romanian officials in the US, and a wrongly
managed 4 year USAID program). The opening of the gallery at the end of 1998  celebrated 15 YEARS OF
PUBLIC EXHIBITS BY THE ROMANIAN MUSEUM and achivments by RODICA PERCIALI, the main founder,
15 YEARS of volunteer COMMITMENT TO ENRICHING AMERICAN CULTURE AND PROMOTING ROMANIA
TO THE PUBLIC AT LARGE. It was 15 years ago in Lansing, Indiana that the museum organized its first
traveling exhibit of costumes, textiles, and the interior of a village house - "Fagaras County, an
ethnographically rich region of South Transylvania". But it will be only now, after 15 years of
"TRAVELINGS" (and tribulations) the museum will FINALLY have its own public space.

Donations and volunteer work are welcome in all areas, but especially in management and marketing and
to strengthen the ties with the artists and artisans in Romania who badly need help and encouragement to
maintain a millennium old tradition of one of the richest folkloric cultures in the world. Be a FRIEND OF
ROMANIA, visit with us, enjoy our great culture (slide presentations and special Romanian Evenings will be
scheduled weekly)
1606 Spruce St.
Philadelphia, PA 19103
215/732-6780
office@romanianculture.us
ro_am_league@yahoo.com
Pottery plates from Horezu, region of
Oltenia small $10, medium$20, large$50