4/20/2010

A few words about us!


Acurela.com is an online contemporary shop. We offer a large selection of fine art, art prints, art photography and accessories for home decoration.

The most recently acquired collection is that from The Contemporary Art Gallery of the Brukenthal National Museum(2006).

The Brukenthal National Museum is situated in Sibiu, Romania in the palace of Samuel von Brukenthal who was Hasburg governor of Transilvania. He established his first collections around 1790, since 1817 his collections are opened to the public, making the Brukenthal National Museum the oldest institution of its kind in Romania.

The Art Galleries of the Brukenthal National Museum include a number of about 1200 works belonging to the main European schools of painting, from the 15th to the 18th century: Flemish-Dutch, German and Austrian, and Italian. The Galleries also include collections of engravings, books, numismatics, and minerals.

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