Romania’s New Contemporary Art Museum In Controversial Palace

Romania has a new National Museum of Contemporary Art. It’s located in an enormous palace that former dictator Nicolae Ceausescu had built but never occupied. “At 270 by 244 metres the building is the second largest building in the world (after the Pentagon). Construction began in 1984, but the massive structure was never completed. To clear land for it, Ceausescu bulldozed 7,000 homes and 26 churches in southern Bucharest and relocated over 70,000 people to the outskirts of the city.”