The Palace of Culture ( ro, Palatul Culturii, hu, Kultúrpalota) is an edifice located in the centre of

Târgu Mureș Târgu Mureș (, ; hu, Marosvásárhely ) is the seat of Mureș County in the historical region of Transylvania, Romania. It is the List of cities and towns in Romania, 16th largest Romanian city, with 134,290 inhabitants as of the 2011 Romania ...

(''Marosvásárhely''),

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. The building houses the ''Mureș County Library'', the ''Mureș County Museum'', and the ''State Philharmonic of Târgu Mureș''. The Palace of Culture of Târgu Mureș is listed in the National Register of Historic Monuments.

Building

The Palace of Culture was built between 1911 and 1913 to the request of mayor György Bernády by Márcell Komor (1868-1944) and

Dezső Jakab Dezső Jakab (4 November 1864 – 5 August 1932) was a Hungarian architect of Jewish heritage. Life He received his degree in architecture from the Budapest University of Technology. At the time of the millennial exhibition, the Ministry of A ...

(1864-1932). The competition for building the Palace of Culture was won by Komor and Jakab with their two-floor plan. Only later to the request of mayor Bernády György the construction was expanded to 3 floors. Construction started in 1911 and lasted until 1913 when the inside decorations were completed. The

Art Nouveau Art Nouveau (; ) is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts. The style is known by different names in different languages: in German, in Italian, in Catalan, and also known as the Modern ...

edifice, designed in Secession style, has 3 buildings: the main building, the right building and the left building. Above of the ''Entrance Hall'' is the ''Mirrors' Hall'', located on the first floor of the building. With a capacity of 700 seats, the multifunctional ''Concert Hall'' forms the central part of the building. Its height corresponds to the three levels of the building. With more than 200 seats, the ''Small Hall'', beautifully decorated with floral motifs, is used for cultural and scientific conferences, and for various recitals and concerts.An information website on the Târgu Mureș Palace of Culture
/ref> On the window glasses there are illustrated sequences from Hungarian legends and on the balustrades of the windows the portraits of Kazinczy Ferenc, Tompa Mihály, Kemény Zsigmond and more. Above the 'quartet' gate the bronze embossments of Szent Erzsébet, Bolyai János and Bolyai Farkas, Aranka György and

Bánk bán ''Bánk bán'' is an opera in 3 acts by composer Ferenc Erkel. The work uses a Hungarian-language libretto by Béni Egressy which is based on a stage play of the same name by József Katona. (''Bán'' is Ban (title), ban in English, similar to a v ...

of Erkel Ferenc can be seen. On the main façade the statues and the embossments are in bronze. The roof is decorated with blue, ruddy and white tiles.

Uses

The building is home to th
State Philharmonic of Târgu Mureș
(founded in 1950), th
Mureș County Library
(since 1913), the art galleries of th
Mureș County Museum
and hosts various exhibitions and events of the Târgu Mureș branch of th
Visual Artists' Union of Romania
About the Târgu Mureș Palace of Culture
/ref> The inside of the palace housed the City Cinema between 1913 and 1957, the first Romanian Theatre School between 1934 and 1940, the State Theatre of Târgu Mureș between 1946 and 1973, the Fine Arts and Music Secondary School between 1949 and 1970, the Academy of Fine Arts between 1932 and 1949 and the County House for Guidance of Folkloric Creation between 1950 and 1999.

Gallery

File:Music Hall Palace of Culture Targu Mures.jpg, The Concert Hall File:Cultural Palace in Târgu Mureş 2.JPG, Hall of Mirrors File:Cultural Palace in Târgu Mureş 1.JPG, The ceiling mural of the Culture Palace

References

External links

Official website of the Târgu Mureș Palace of Culture
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