A Special Museum - “Dinu and Sevasta Vintilă” in a remote part of the world - Topalu
A Special Museum - “Dinu and Sevasta Vintilă” in a remote part of the world - Topalu

Summary/Abstract: Located in a rural area, the Topalu Museum cannot be compared in size or grandeur to the great museums of the world, not even in terms of predictability, but it certainly has their importance due to the national cultural essence that it stores in each work of art in part. It is a museum that represents us as a people, being a fragment of the history and culture of our country, which increases even more the amazement of those who cross its threshold and discover a collection of great sophistication, a real visual treasure. On August 27, 1960, Dr. Gheorghe D. Vintilă donated 228 paintings, graphics and sculptures from the modern and contemporary period to his hometown, Topalu. Inaugurated a day later, the collection, named since then as ”museum”, was exhibited in the home of the Vintilă family and has remained inside the donor's parents' house until today. The prestige that the museum acquired since its opening led Dr. Gheorghe Vintilă to make, in 1969, a new donation to the Constanta Art Museum consisting of 47 reference works by Romanian artists, which made the two museums to be stylistically similar. The similarity was noted in the exhibitions that followed either the path of the bright Dobrogean lands or the fascinating Balcic, or that of some representative artists of the modern and contemporary period.

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