Established in 1969 as the Romanian Library, the Romanian Cultural Institute (RCI) in North America is one of Romania’s oldest cultural diplomacy vehicles. The transformation from a library to a cultural center and, since 2004, a cultural institute has marked almost five decades of development and periodic reinvention.

Endowed with a versatile institutional identity, the RCI is at once a curator, promoter, and producer of artistic and cultural events, a resource center, and a learning hub, which act in synergy to showcase the diversity and vibrancy of the Romanian artistic, cultural, and academic scene and to galvanize Romanian-American cultural relations at all levels.

While based in New York City, the RCI aspires to a Pan-American presence as our projects cover the whole of the United States and major cultural centers in Canada.