The Peleș National Museum and the "Stella Maris" Potato Society in Constanța announce the opening of the exhibition "Regality and the Sea", which will take place on Saturday, May 11, 2024, at 12:00, in the Hall of Honor of Pelișor Castle.
The event celebrates both Royalty Day and the special bond between the Royal House and the Sea.
"The Royalty and the Sea: an inviting title of a book, whose author was the unforgettable Doina Păuleanu, a prestigious art historian from the shores of the Euxine Pontus, who identified with the history of the place where she lived the most fruitful years of her life and which she described in scholarly works that have become mandatory bibliography in the field. The album-book that bore the subtitle Dobrogea. 1878-1914, rigorously documented and published in excellent graphic conditions in 2015, evokes the history of this province integrated into the Old Kingdom after the victorious War of Independence, showing precisely the essential contribution of the Romanian monarchy to the development of these lands during the reign of King Carol I.
Royalty and the sea: the title of a very interesting exhibition, inaugurated at the Peleș National Museum, in the hall of honor of Pelișor Castle, on May 11, 2024. Here, then, are the strong historical foundations that determined a group of passionate collectors, gathered in the "Stella Maris" Association - which symbolically bears the name of the chapel that Queen Maria built in Balchik and in which she wanted to rest her heart -, to organize at the Pelișor Castle in Sinaia, another "dream house" dear to the sovereign, the home in which she lived for almost a lifetime, an exhibition that would present to the public in the country and abroad testimonies of this special connection between the world by the sea and the Romanian Royal Family" - Dr. Narcis Dorin Ion, general director of the Peleș National Museum.
The exhibition project was started by some of the members of the Stella Maris Association – Gabriel Octavian Nicolae, Doru Ghizdăvescu, George Barcaru, Zetu Harrys, Ștefan Constantinescu, Emanuel Erena, Eduard Chirilov and Șerban Drăgușanu – out of the desire to offer history and art lovers the opportunity to admire heritage objects from personal collections, which are subsumed into some of the most diverse and interesting topics: Royal Dobrogea, The Royal Army at Constanța, Royal Words in the Pages of the Magazine "Marea Noastră", Royal Mamaia, Memories of Royal Romania, Constanța of the Past, Queen Maria de la Balchik's "Quiet Nest" or the War of Independence in the press of the time.
The second issue of the magazine "Stella Maris" will also be launched during the opening.
The exhibition "Regality and the Sea" will be open to the public from May 11 to June 9, 2024, and will be free to visit, from Wednesday to Sunday, as follows:
Wednesday: 10:00 – 16:00 (last entry)
Thursday – Sunday: 09:15 – 16:00 (last entry).