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National Museum of Contemporary Art (Romania)

museum in Bucharest, Romania

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ6963033 ↗
Source-derived summary

The National Museum of Contemporary Art (Romanian: Muzeul Național de Artă Contemporană, or MNAC) is a contemporary art museum in Bucharest, Romania. The museum is located in a new glass wing of the Palace of the Parliament, one of the largest administrative buildings in the world.

Editorial summary

“National Museum of Contemporary Art (Romania)” enters the record as museum in Bucharest, Romania. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what National, Museum and Contemporary can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current 46-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2001. Its strongest next move is a source search built around National, Museum and Contemporary.
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Why this record matters

“National Museum of Contemporary Art (Romania)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, National, Museum and Contemporary provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6963033. VIAF identifies the subject as 171783413. The Library of Congress control number is nr2003038242. Authority coordinates are 44.428, 26.087. 2 of 6 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

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  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
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Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “National Museum of Contemporary Art (Romania)”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow National Museum of Contemporary Art (Romania) primary sources, National Museum of Contemporary Art (Romania) archive and National research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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This entry incorporates text from “National Museum of Contemporary Art (Romania)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.