The collection - gathered by Professor Nicolae Minovici (1868 - 1941) - comprises Romanian folk art artefacts from all the ethnographic areas of the country: textiles, wooden artefacts, folk furniture, pottery, icons, painted eggs, traditional musical instruments, ustensils, recreating the interior of peasant houses, as well as documents on dr. Minovici. The museum building was built in 1905 by the architect Cristofi Cerchez after the recommendations of Professor Minovici. The house, together with the collection items, became available to the public in 1914, but only in 1936 were they donated to the city of Bucharest, in order to form a folk art museum.
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