THE ONLY INITIATIVE CAME FROM AN AMERICAN ARCHITECT

Although three years ago the local authorities announced the intention to build a Brancuşi Museum located in Targu Jiu, the project has not materialized yet. Mihai Radu, an American architect native of Romania is the designer of this project. In 2005, he arrived in Targu Jiu together with a group of American businessmen and purchased a land of 5000sm in the vicinity of the Endless Column as the location for the future museum. Nothing happened, the Targu Jiu complex in the meantime is being used as a background for elaborate pictures of local weddings and baptisms, without even being included in a visitor circuit. Further more nothing was invested, not even in the most modest amounts for a much needed renovation of Hobita Memorial House, a famous location for the sometime ago sculpture camp which lies nowadays in a severe damage condition.